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Chickens and Pigs with Integrated Genetic Scissors

April 21, 2021
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Munich, Germany — Researchers at the TUM have demonstrated a way to efficiently study molecular mechanisms of disease resistance or biomedical issues in farm animals. Researchers are now able to introduce...

Chaperone Protein Imbalance Promotes Toxic Tau Buildup in Ageing Brain

April 21, 2021
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Tampa, FL — Chaperone protein imbalance can play a significant role in initiating toxic accumulation of tau in the ageing brain – an early step in the development of Alzheimer’s disease...

‘Information Theory’ Recruited to Help Scientists Find Cancer Genes

April 21, 2021
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Baltimore, MD — Using a widely known field of mathematics designed mainly to study how digital and other forms of information are measured, stored and shared, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine and...

Study reveals a unique mode of cell migration on soft ‘viscoelastic’ surfaces

April 20, 2021
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Stanford, CA — Inside your body, cell movement plays a crucial role in many significant biological processes, including wound healing, immune responses and the potential spread of cancer. “Most...

Surprising Ionic and Flow Behaviours with Functionalized Nanochannels

April 20, 2021
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College Park, MD — Nanochannels have important applications in biomedicine, sensing, and many other fields. Though engineers working in the field of nanotechnology have been fabricating these tiny,...

Scientists Identify Protein that could Serve as Therapeutic Target in Lung Cancer

April 20, 2021
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Richmond, VA — Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have identified a protein that operates in tandem with a specific genetic mutation to spur lung cancer growth and could serve as a therapeutic...

Tiny Implantable Tool for Light-Sheet imaging of brain activity

April 20, 2021
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Cardiff, UK — Tools that allow neuroscientists to record and quantify functional activity within the living brain are in great demand. Traditionally, researchers have used techniques such as functional...

Scientists Discover a New Gene Regulation Mechanism

April 19, 2021
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — A team of scientists from Russia studied the role of double-stranded fragments of the maturing RNA and showed that the interaction between distant parts of the RNA can regulate...

Researchers Use Laser Paintbrush to Create Miniature Masterpieces

April 19, 2021
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Washington, DC — Researchers are blurring the lines between science and art by showing how a laser can be used to create artistic masterpieces in a way that mirrors classical paints and brushes. The...

Researchers Grow Stem Cells to Cure Glaucoma

April 19, 2021
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — A joint research carried out by MIPT scientists and Harvard researchers have presented retinal cells that can integrate into the retina. This is the first successful attempt...

Leg muscle action assists blood flow independently of age

April 19, 2021
Mindzilla

Ishikawa, Japan — Chronic lower-limb edema (CLE) — the permanent accumulation of fluid in the leg — often occurs in elderly people. The condition leads to various physical and mental problems,...

Study Identifies new targets in the angiogenesis process

April 19, 2021
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Sevilla, Spain — Angiogenesis is a process of new vessel formation that is activated both in physiological (tissue repair, reproduction, etc.) and pathological (myocardial infarction, diabetic retinopathy,...

COVID-19: Scientists Identify Human Genes that Fight Infection

April 19, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified a set of human genes that fight SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19. Knowing which genes help control viral infection...

How Tangled Proteins Kill Brain Cells, Promote Alzheimer’s, CTE

April 19, 2021
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Boulder, CO — Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimer’s disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and you’ll...

Neural Plasticity Depends on this Long Noncoding RNA’s Journey from Nucleus to Synapse

April 19, 2021
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Jupiter, FL — Making memories involves more than seeing friends or taking photos. The brain constantly adapts to new information and stores memories by building connections among neurons, called synapses....

Designing Better Antibody Drugs with Artificial Intelligence

April 16, 2021
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Zürich, Switzerland — Antibodies are not only produced by our immune cells to fight viruses and other pathogens in the body. For a few decades now, medicine has also been using antibodies produced...

Understanding How DNA Repairs Itself may Lead to Better Cancer Treatment

April 16, 2021
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Evanston, IL — From cancer treatment to sunlight, radiation and toxins can severely damage DNA in both harmful and healthy cells. While the body has evolved to efficiently treat and restore damaged...

Understanding the Growth of Disease-Causing Protein Fibers

April 16, 2021
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Bath, UK — Amyloid fibrils are deposits of proteins in the body that join together to form microscopic fibers. Their formation has been linked to many serious human diseases including Alzheimer’s,...

Scientists Program Microalgae’s ‘Oil Factory’ to Produce Various Oils

April 16, 2021
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Beijing, China — By combining the ‘chassis’ of an oil-producing microalgae with genes from a Cuphea plant, scientists from the Single-Cell Center, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess...

Stretching the Boundaries of Medical Tech with Wearable Antennae

April 16, 2021
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State College, PA — Current research on flexible electronics is paving the way for wireless sensors that can be worn on the body and collect a variety of medical data. But where do the data go? Without...

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