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Study Suggests How to Build a Better ‘Nanopore’ Biosensor

April 28, 2021
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Gaithersburg, MD — Researchers have spent more than three decades developing and studying miniature biosensors that can identify single molecules. In five to 10 years, when such devices may become...

Researchers Uncover Activation Mechanism of a Cell Growth Protein that can Trigger Cancer

April 26, 2021
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Saarbrücken, Germany — There are many different types of cancer, but they all have one thing in common: errors in the signals that control normal cell behaviour can cause uncontrolled cell growth and...

Force Transmission between Cells Orchestrates Collective Cellular Motion

April 26, 2021
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Frederiksberg, Denmark — How do the billions of cells communicate in order to perform tasks? The cells exert force on their environment through movement – and in doing so, they communicate. They...

Study Paves the Way for New Photosensitive Materials

April 23, 2021
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Tempe, AZ — Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications, including air purification, water treatment, self-cleaning surfaces, pollution-fighting paints...

Novel “Hydrogel” Carriers for Anti-Cancer Drugs Offer New Hope for Cancer Treatment

April 8, 2021
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Tokyo, Japan — Cancer therapy in recent times relies on the use of several drugs derived from biological sources including different bacteria and viruses, among others. However, these bio-based drugs...

Origins of Life could have Started with DNA-Like XNAs

April 8, 2021
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Nagoya, Japan — Nagoya University scientists in Japan have demonstrated how DNA-like molecules could have come together as a precursor to the origins of life. The findings, published in the journal Nature...

A Novel Form of Cellular Logistics

April 8, 2021
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Munich, Germany — Biophysicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that a phenomenon known as diffusiophoresis, which can lead to a directed particle transport, can occur...

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