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Genetic Barcodes can Ensure Authentic DNA Fingerprints

May 25, 2020
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Durham, NC — Engineers at Duke University and the New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering have demonstrated a method for ensuring that an increasingly popular method of genetic identification...

Measuring Blood Damage

May 25, 2020
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Newark, DE — According to the National Kidney Foundation, more than 37 million people are living with kidney disease. The kidneys play an important role in the body, from removing waste products...

Scientists Finally Crack Nature’s Most Common Chemical Bond

May 25, 2020
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Berkeley, CA — The most common chemical bond in the living world — that between carbon and hydrogen — has long resisted attempts by chemists to crack it open, thwarting efforts to add new...

At The Crossroads

May 25, 2020
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Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany — On average, the human body contains 35 trillion red blood cells (RBCs). Approximately three million of these small disc-shaped cells die in one second. But in this second,...

Iron Nanorobots Go Undercover

May 25, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance–their location and migration noninvasively tracked in real time over many days–using a new method...

New Understanding of Everyday Cellular Processes

May 25, 2020
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Coventry, UK — We use cells to breathe, to moderate body temperature, to grow and many other every day processes, however the cells in these processes are so complex its left scientists perplexed into...

T-cells could be Made into Better Cancer Killers by Increasing Their Protein Production

May 25, 2020
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Charleston, SC — A team of scientists from Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has developed a novel flow cytometry technique that can, for the first-time, quantify...

One Minute Electro-Optical Coronavirus Test Developed

May 24, 2020
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Beer-Sheva, Israel — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Prof. Gabby Sarusi has developed a one-minute electro-optical test of nose, throat or breath samples that will identify both asymptomatic...

Preclinical Study Offers Hope for Hirschsprung’s Disease

May 24, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — Babies with Hirschsprung’s disease are born with an incomplete or absent gut nervous system. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles investigator Dr. Tracy Grikscheit, runs a...

Age, Male Sex, Obesity, and Underlying Illness Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 or Death

May 24, 2020
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London, UK — Age, male sex, obesity, and underlying illness have emerged as risk factors for severe covid-19 or death in the UK, according to the largest cohort study to date published by The BMJ May...

New Urine Testing Method Holds Promise for Kidney Stone Sufferers

May 24, 2020
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University Park, PA — An improved urine-testing system for people suffering from kidney stones inspired by nature and proposed by researchers from Penn State and Stanford University may enable patients...

Placentas From COVID-19-Positive Pregnant Women Show Injury

May 24, 2020
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Chicago, IL — The placentas from 16 women who tested positive for COVID-19 while pregnant showed evidence of injury, according to pathological exams completed directly following birth, reports a new...

Observing the Freely Behaving Brain in Action

May 21, 2020
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München, Germany — Scientists working at caesar have developed a small head-mounted microscope that allows access to the inner workings of the brain. The new system enables measurement of activity...

Subcellular Chatter Regulates Longevity

May 21, 2020
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Firenze FI, Italy — As people get older, they often feel less energetic, mobile or active. This may be due in part to a decline in mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses inside of our cells, which provide...

Lighting Up Cells with Genetically-Encoded X-Ray-Sensitive Probes

May 21, 2020
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Shanghai, China — Microscopic visualization of sub-cellular structures and constituents plays a central role in cell biology. Synchrotron-based X-ray microscopy (XRM) provides a unique approach for...

Identification of a Determining Factor in Luminal Cancer Cells

May 21, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — The Translational Control of Cell Cycle and Differentiation Lab at IRB Barcelona, led by ICREA researcher Raúl Méndez, has published a study in the journal Science Advances that...

Releasing Molecular ‘Brake’ Kick-Starts Immune Cell Function

May 21, 2020
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Grand Rapids, MI — The immune system’s ability to marshal specialized cells to fight off infection relies in part on tiny molecules called microRNAs, which act as a release for the “brakes”...

New Tool to Map the Flow of Info Within Living Cells

May 21, 2020
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Chapel Hill, NC — How do cells move? Why do they move? Why do some cancer cells move slowly while others move quickly, causing a cancerous tumour to metastasize and become much more difficult to treat...

Study on Nerve Cell Repair

May 21, 2020
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Aurora, CO — Researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine have identified a new way that cells in the central nervous system regenerate and repair following damage. In an article...

Smoking Increases SARS-CoV-2 Receptors in Lung

May 21, 2020
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — New research from CSHL scientists suggests that cigarette smoke spurs the lungs to make more ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme 2), the protein that the coronavirus responsible...

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