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Gene-Editing Produces Tenfold Increase in Superbug Slaying Antibiotics

January 15, 2021
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Norwich, UK — Scientists have used gene-editing advances to achieve a tenfold increase in the production of super-bug targeting formicamycin antibiotics. The John Innes Centre researchers used...

Unravelling the Mystery that Makes Viruses Infectious

January 13, 2021
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Leeds, UK — Researchers have for the first time identified the way viruses like the poliovirus and the common cold virus ‘package up’ their genetic code, allowing them to infect cells. The...

Natural Products with Potential Efficacy Against Lethal Viruses

January 11, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego have broken down the genomic and...

Seeking to Avoid ‘Full Lockdown,’ Cells Monitor Ribosome Collisions

December 18, 2020
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St. Louis, MO — Ribosomes are the machines in the cell that use instructions from mRNA to synthesize functional proteins. There are hundreds of thousands of ribosomes in each cell, and they mostly...

Study Shows Endothelial Cell Targeting could Help Fight Covid-19 Symptoms

December 15, 2020
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Stony Brook, NY — For Covid-19 patients with serious lung disease, targeting endothelial cells -cells that comprise the blood vessel wall which regulate oxygen exchange between airways and the bloodstream-...

Gut Microbiota Plays a Role in Brain Function and Mood Regulation

December 14, 2020
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Paris, France — Depression is a mental disorder that affects more than 264 million people of all ages worldwide. Understanding its mechanisms is vital for the development of effective therapeutic strategies....

Scientists Shed New Light on How Lung Bacteria Defend Against Pneumonia

December 10, 2020
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Geneva, Switzerland — New insight on how bacteria in the lungs protect against invading pathogens has been published today in the open-access eLife journal. The study in mice shows that a strain...

Cell Membranes in Super Resolution

December 3, 2020
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Würzburg, Germany — Expansion microscopy (ExM) enables the imaging of cells and their components with a spatial resolution far below 200 nanometres. For this purpose, the proteins of the sample under...

Study Suggests Metabolism Influences Parasite’s Resistance to Drugs

December 2, 2020
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Boston, MA — New insight on how a parasite can resist current therapies has been published today in the open-access eLife journal. The study in cultures of human cells infected with Trypanosoma...

Chemical Compounds in Foods can Inhibit a Key SARS-CoV-2 Enzyme

December 1, 2020
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Raleigh, NC — Chemical compounds in foods or beverages like green tea, muscadine grapes and dark chocolate can bind to and block the function of a particular enzyme, or protease, in the SARS-CoV-2...

Study Reveals New Findings on Nature’s UV Sunscreens

December 1, 2020
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Wales, UK — Swansea University research has provided a new insight into the behaviour of nature’s own UV sunscreens when they are exposed to other parts of the light spectrum. Mycosporine-like...

COVID-19 Studies should also Focus on Mucosal Immunity, Researchers Argue

November 30, 2020
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Buffalo, NY — Anyone who has undergone a nasal swab or saliva test for COVID-19 knows that the virus is most easily detected in the nose and mouth. That’s why, University at Buffalo researchers...

New Insights into How CRISPR Immune System Evolved

November 26, 2020
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Aarhus, Denmark — With new insights into how the genetic tool CRISPR – which allows direct editing of our genes – evolved and adapted, we are now one step closer to understanding the basis...

Tackling Metabolic Complexity

November 25, 2020
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Munich, Germany — Metabolic robustness, the ability of a metabolic system to buffer changes in its environment, is not always a welcome feature for microbiologists: it interferes with metabolic engineering...

Patented Solution for Dry Mouth Relief and Food Product Development

November 19, 2020
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Leeds, UK — A team of scientists from the University of Leeds have developed a new hydrogel that has significant potential for oral care products that can help with dry mouth relief. The team developed...

Scientists Discover New Mechanism Controlling Brain Size

November 17, 2020
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Frederiksberg, Denmark — Under the leadership of Professor Lars Allan Larsen and Professor Søren Tvorup Christensen at University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, an international research team has taken...

Worms Reveal Why Melatonin Promotes Sleep

November 16, 2020
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Storrs, CT — Melatonin is used as a dietary supplement to promote sleep and get over jet lag, but nobody really understands how it works in the brain. Now, researchers at UConn Health show that melatonin...

Cellular Survivors

November 13, 2020
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Santa Barbara, CA — When it comes to complex life — that of the multicellular variety — cell death can be just as important as survival. It allows organisms to clean house and prevent the...

Cell Ageing can be Slowed by Oxidants

November 9, 2020
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Gothenburg, Sweden — At high concentrations, reactive oxygen species – known as oxidants – are harmful to cells in all organisms and have been linked to ageing. But a study from Chalmers...

Microbial Space Travel on a Molecular Scale

November 5, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — Since the dawn of space exploration, humankind has been fascinated by survival of terrestrial life in outer space. Outer space is a hostile environment for any form of life, but some...

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