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Antibiotic Levels Measurable in Breath for First Time

September 24, 2021
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Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany — A team of engineers and biotechnologists at the University of Freiburg has for the first time shown in mammals that the concentration of antibiotics in the body can...

Fine-Tuned Hydrocarbon Separation at Low Energy Cost

September 24, 2021
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — An electrochemical approach developed at KAUST produces molecular-sieving membranes that could enable a cheap energy-efficient separation of light hydrocarbons, such as olefins...

Novel Assay Finds New Mechanism Underlying Red Blood Cell Ageing

September 24, 2021
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Boca Raton, FL — Red blood cells are the most abundant cell type in blood, carrying oxygen throughout the human body. In blood circulation, they repetitively encounter various levels of oxygen tension....

Scientists Find a Key to Hepatitis C Entry into Cells

September 24, 2021
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Bethesda, MD — In a new paper published in Nature, scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, describe the structure...

Researchers Build Embryo-Like Structures from Human Stem Cells

September 24, 2021
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Pasadena, CA — Research on human embryos is vital to understanding the earliest stages of human development. Currently, this research is conducted on surplus embryos willingly donated by individuals...

Regulator Proteins or Symphonies of Genes: Statistical Modelling Points Way Toward Unified Theory for DNA Folding

September 24, 2021
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Washington, DC — At more than 2 meters long, the human DNA molecule uses intricate folding patterns to fit into cells while locally unfolding to express genes. Such phenomena, however, are difficult...

Eating Less Fat may Save Your Hair

September 24, 2021
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Tokyo, Japan — It’s well known that obesity is linked to the development of numerous diseases in humans. Heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments are extremely common in obese individuals. However,...

Right Program could Turn Immune Cells into Cancer Killers

September 24, 2021
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Baltimore, MD — Cancer-fighting immune cells in patients with lung cancer whose tumours do not respond to immunotherapies appear to be running on a different “program” that makes them less effective...

Right Light on the Mother’s Belly may be Important to the Foetus

September 24, 2021
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Umeå, Sweden — There may be a link between exposure to light during pregnancy and foetal brain development. New findings by researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, working in collaboration with American...

Allosteric Inhibition Reveals SHP2-Mediated Tumour Immunosuppression in Colon Cancer by Single-Cell Transcriptomics

September 24, 2021
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Nanjing, China — Colorectal cancer (CRC), a malignant tumour worldwide consists of microsatellite instability (MSI) and stable (MSS) phenotypes. Although SHP2 is a hopeful target for cancer therapy,...

How Resistant Germs Transport Toxins at Molecular Level

September 24, 2021
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Düsseldorf, Germany — Micro-organism resistance to antibiotics in particular is a major problem in everyday medicine. This has seen the number of resistant microbes increase exponentially. As a result,...

Gene for Sex Hormone Synthesis could Play Key Role in Eczema

September 24, 2021
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Dallas, TX — A study led by UT Southwestern dermatologists suggests that a common inflammatory skin condition may stem from poorly regulated sex hormones. The finding, published this week in PNAS,...

Scientists Find a New Way to Reverse Immune Suppression in Tumours

September 23, 2021
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New York, NY — Malignant tumours can enhance their ability to survive and spread by suppressing antitumour immune cells in their vicinity, but a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and...

When Organoids Meet Coronaviruses

September 23, 2021
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Utrecht, Netherlands — Researchers from the group of Hans Clevers in collaboration with the group of Bart Haagmans (Erasmus MC) established an organoid biobank to search for the genes that are essential...

Study Reveals How Ribosomes are Assembled in Human Cells

September 23, 2021
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New York, NY — All cells need ribosomes to make the proteins necessary for life. These multi-component molecular machines build complex proteins by stitching building blocks together according to instructions...

Selectively Staining Neutrophils in White Blood Cells

September 23, 2021
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Pohang, South Korea — White blood cells act as the first line of defense in the immune system and are often referred to as an army that protects our body. Neutrophils account for the largest portion...

Pyrrole Chemistry: Good Things Come in Threes

September 23, 2021
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Sapporo, Japan — A new approach leads to the long-awaited formation of rings made of three pyrroles, which could be used to produce compounds with a host of interesting properties, and explains why...

Scientists Reveal How Vitamin A Enters Immune Cells in the Gut

September 23, 2021
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Dallas, TX — Immunologists and geneticists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered how vitamin A enters immune cells in the intestines – findings that could offer insight to treat digestive...

How We’re Taking the Latest Superfood Mainstream, with Science

September 22, 2021
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Joondalup, Australia — Lupins have long been touted as the next superfood, combatting heart disease, diabetes and obesity and new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has taken an important step...

Simple Way to Get Complex Semiconductors to Assemble Themselves

September 22, 2021
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Menlo Park, CA — Stacking extremely thin films of material on top of each other can create new materials with exciting new properties. But the most successful processes for building those stacks can...

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