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Microbiology

Immune Protein Orchestrates Daily Rhythm of Squid-Bacteria Symbiotic Relationship

October 20, 2020
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Honolulu, HI — Nearly every organism hosts a collection of symbiotic microbes–a microbiome. It is now recognized that microbiomes are major drivers of health in all animals, including humans,...

Small RNA as a Central Player in Infections

October 19, 2020
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Würzburg, Germany — More than half of the world’s population carries the bacterium Helicobacter pylori in their stomach mucosa. It often causes no problems throughout life, but sometimes it can...

Protein that Keeps Immune System from Freaking Out could Form Basis for New Therapeutics

October 15, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — The immune response to infections is a delicate balance. We need just enough action to clear away the offending bacteria or viruses, but not so much that our own bodies suffer collateral...

Bacterial Toxin with Healing Effect

October 15, 2020
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Jena, Germany — Normally they are among the many harmless organisms found in and on the human body: one in four people have millions of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria on their skin and on the mucous...

World First Study Shows Some Microorganisms can Bend the Rules of Evolution

October 15, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — In a world first Monash University scientists have discovered that HGT can bend the rules of evolution. The discovery is outlined in a study published today in PNAS, which...

New Virtual Reality Software Allows Scientists to ‘Walk’ Inside Cells

October 13, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Virtual reality software which allows researchers to ‘walk’ inside and analyse individual cells could be used to understand fundamental problems in biology and develop new...

Setting a TRAP for Pandemic-Causing Viruses

October 12, 2020
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Nagoya, Japan — A research team led by Nagoya University scientists in Japan has developed an approach that can quickly find synthetic proteins that specifically bind to important targets, such as...

New Research Provides Clues on Optimizing Cell Defenses when Viruses Attack

October 1, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Science’s pursuits of unraveling how human cells fight viral infections kicked into high gear in 2020 with the devastating emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. A study published...

Gut Microbiome may Influence How Cancer Patients Respond to Oral Therapies, Study Suggests

October 1, 2020
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London, ON — A new study from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University illustrates how the gut microbiome interacts with an oral medication in prostate cancer patients, suggesting bacteria...

New Discovery Helps Researchers Rethink Organoid Cultures

October 1, 2020
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Austin, TX — Organoids are stem cell-based tissue surrogates that can mimic the structure and function of organs, and they have become a key component of numerous types of medical research in recent...

Lending Colour to Dead Cells — Novel Natural Dye for Screening Cell Viability

September 28, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — Conducting studies in vitro — a Latin term that literally means “in the glass”– is essential in the fields of medicine and biology. Working with in vitro cultures...

Researchers Discover a Novel Family of Toxins Used in Bacterial Competition

September 22, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have characterized a novel family of anti-bacterial toxins present in bacteria, including Salmonella enterica. This species...

COVID-19 Virus Uses Heparan Sulphate to Get Inside Cells

September 17, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A molecule known as ACE2 sits like a doorknob on the outer surfaces of the cells that line the lungs. Since January 2020, researchers have known that SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus...

Study Connects Hormones We’re Born with to Lifetime Risk for Immunological Diseases

September 17, 2020
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East Lansing, MI — Differences in biological sex can dictate lifelong disease patterns, says a new study by Michigan State University researchers that links connections between specific hormones present...

Researchers Publish Striking Images of SARS-CoV-2 Infected Cells

September 14, 2020
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Chapel Hill, NC — The UNC School of Medicine laboratory of Dr. Camille Ehre, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, produced striking images in respiratory tract cultures of the infectious form of the...

Caffeine Shot Delivers Wakeup Call on Antifungal Drug Resistance

September 10, 2020
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Edinburgh, UK — The management of fungal infections in plants and humans could be transformed by a breakthrough in understanding how fungi develop resistance to drugs. It was previously thought...

Improving European Healthcare Through Cell-Based Interceptive Medicine

September 9, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — Hundreds of innovators, research pioneers, clinicians, industry leaders and policy makers from all around Europe are united by a vision of how to revolutionize healthcare. In two...

New Microfluidic Device Minimizes Loss of High Value Samples

September 9, 2020
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Tempe, AZ — A major collaborative effort that has been developing over the last three years between ASU and European scientists, has resulted in a significant technical advance in X-ray crystallographic...

Cellular Roadmaps Predict Body’s Coronavirus Vulnerability

September 7, 2020
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Ithaca, NY — New research from Cornell University developed potential roadmaps for how the coronavirus infects organs and identifies what molecular factors could help facilitate or restrict infection. “The...

Autophagy: The Beginning of the End

September 6, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — Autophagosomes first form as cup-shaped membranes in the cell, which then grow to engulf the cellular material designated for destruction. The formation of these membranes is catalyzed...

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