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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...

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...

New Wearable Sensor Tracks Vitamin C Levels in Sweat

May 20, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A team at the University of California San Diego has developed a wearable, non invasive Vitamin C sensor that could provide a new, highly personalized option for users to track their...

Cutting Edge Two-Photon Microscopy System Breaks New Grounds in Retinal Imaging

May 20, 2020
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Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong — Retina is the only part of the central nervous system (CNS) that can be visualized noninvasively with optical imaging approaches. Direct retinal imaging plays an important...

Iron Nanorobots Go Undercover

May 20, 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...

COVID-19 Related Strokes, Other Neurological Impact Under Study

May 20, 2020
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Augusta, GA — Traditional stroke treatments like clot-dissolving tPA and surgical removal of big clots in the brain are good choices as well when the stroke results from SARS-CoV-2 infection, investigators...

Nanobowls Serve up Chemotherapy Drugs to Cancer Cells

May 20, 2020
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Washington, DC — For decades, scientists have explored the use of liposomes — hollow spheres made of lipid bilayers — to deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumour cells. But drugs can sometimes...

Artificial Pieces of Brain Use Light to Communicate With Real Neurons

May 20, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — A prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces an injured or missing part of the body. You can easily imagine a stereotypical pirate with a wooden leg or Luke Skywalker’s famous...

Missing Component of Innate Immune Signalling Identified

May 15, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — How cells recognize pathogens and alert the immune system swiftly is a fundamental process of high importance for the survival of any species, including humans. A key role is ascribed...

Uncovering How ‘Dark Matter’ Regions of the Genome Affect Inflammatory Diseases

May 13, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — A study led by researchers at the Babraham Institute in collaboration with the Wellcome Sanger Institute has uncovered how variations in a non-protein coding ‘dark matter’...

Tiny RNA That Should Attack Coronavirus Diminish With Age, Disease

May 13, 2020
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Augusta, GA — A group of tiny RNA that should attack the virus causing COVID-19 when it tries to infect the body are diminished with age and chronic health problems, a decrease that likely helps explain...

Researchers Find Protein That Helps Cancer Cells to Survive

May 13, 2020
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Copenhagen, Denmark — In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered two important functions of a protein called RTEL1 during cell division. The researchers hope that...

Towards Antibodies Against COVID-19

May 6, 2020
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Ghent, Belgium — The lab of Xavier Saelens (VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology) announces the isolation and characterization of a unique antibody that can bind to the virus that causes COVID-19...

Unraveling One of Prion Disease’s Deadly Secrets

May 6, 2020
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Amherst, MA — A molecular biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who has for decades studied the nightmarish group of fatal diseases caused by prions – chronic wasting disease in...

Protective Shield: How Pathogens Withstand Acidic Environments in the Body

May 6, 2020
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Basel, Switzerland — Certain bacteria, including the dangerous nosocomial pathogen MRSA, can protect themselves from acidic conditions in our body and thus ensure their survival. Researchers at the...

Researchers Are Developing Potential Treatment for Chronic Pain

May 1, 2020
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Copenhagen, Denmark — Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new way to treat chronic pain which has been tested in mice. With a compound designed and developed by the researchers...

‘Breathable’ Electronics Pave the Way for More Functional Wearable Tech

May 1, 2020
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Raleigh, NC — Engineering researchers have created ultrathin, stretchable electronic material that is gas permeable, allowing the material to “breathe.” The material was designed specifically...

Better Understanding of Nature’s Nanomachines May Help in Design of Future Drugs

May 1, 2020
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Montreal, QC, Canada — Many of the drugs and medicines that we rely on today are natural products taken from microbes like bacteria and fungi. Within these microbes, the drugs are made by tiny natural...

Assessing Kidney Quality Before Transplantation Using Photoacoustic Imaging

May 1, 2020
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Toronto, ON, Canada — When kidney transplants first came into practice in the 1950s, patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) could finally picture freedom from the unrelenting routine of blood-cleansing...

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