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Researchers Publish New Guide for Viral Tracers in Neural Circuit Mapping

August 6, 2020
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Irvine, CA — Researchers from the newly-established Center for Neural Circuit Mapping at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine evaluate the properties of anterograde and retrograde...

How Thoughts could One Day Control Electronic Prostheses, Wirelessly

August 6, 2020
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Stanford, CA — Stanford researchers have been working for years to advance a technology that could one day help people with paralysis regain use of their limbs, and enable amputees to use their thoughts...

Implanted Neural Stem Cell Grafts Show Functionality in Spinal Cord Injuries

August 6, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Using stem cells to restore lost functions due to spinal cord injury (SCI) has long been an ambition of scientists and doctors. Nearly 18,000 people in the United States suffer SCIs...

Turning Carbon Dioxide into Liquid Fuel

August 6, 2020
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Lemont, IL — Catalysts speed up chemical reactions and form the backbone of many industrial processes. For example, they are essential in transforming heavy oil into gasoline or jet fuel. Today, catalysts...

How Cells Keep Growing Even When Under Attack

August 6, 2020
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Amherst, MA — In an unexpected new finding, biochemists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report observing that a damage-containment system in stressed bacteria can become overrun and blocked,...

Algal Symbiosis Could Shed Light on Dark Ocean

August 5, 2020
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East Boothbay, Maine — New research has revealed a surprise twist in the symbiotic relationship between a type of salamander and the alga that lives inside its eggs. A new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology...

Interpreting the Human Genome’s Instruction Manual

August 5, 2020
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Berkeley, CA — A 17-year research project has generated a detailed atlas of the genome that reveals the location of hundreds of thousands of potential regulatory regions – a resource that will...

Study Suggests Embryos Could Be Susceptible to Coronavirus

August 5, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Genes that are thought to play a role in how the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects our cells have been found to be active in embryos as early as during the second week of pregnancy, say scientists...

Understanding Why Some Children Enjoy TV More Than Others

August 5, 2020
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Norwich, UK — Children’s own temperament could be driving the amount of TV they watch – according to new research from the University of East Anglia and Birkbeck, University of London. New...

Researchers Develop New Mouse Model for Sars-Cov-2

August 5, 2020
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New York, NY — Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine have developed a new mouse model to study SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease and to accelerate testing of novel treatments and vaccines...

Implantable Transmitter Provides Wireless Option for Biomedical Devices

August 5, 2020
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West Lafayette, IN — Purdue University innovators are working on inventions to use micro-chip technology in implantable devices and other wearable products such as smart watches to improve biomedical...

Sharing a Secret…The Quantum Way

August 5, 2020
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Johannesburg, South Africa — Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, have demonstrated a record setting quantum protocol for sharing a secret amongst many...

Cell Diversity in the Embryo

August 4, 2020
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Munich, Germany — A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin has explored the role of factors in embryonic development that do not alter the sequence of DNA, but only...

Deep Learning on Cell Signalling Networks Establishes AI for Single-Cell Biology

August 4, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — Computer systems that emulate key aspects of human problem solving are commonly referred to as artificial intelligence (AI). This field has seen massive progress over the last years....

Hydrogel Paves Way for Biomedical Breakthrough

August 4, 2020
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Sydney, Australia — Published in Advanced Functional Materials, a University of Sydney team of biomedical engineers has developed a plasma technology to robustly attach hydrogels - a jelly-like substance...

AI & Single-Cell Genomics

August 4, 2020
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Augsburg, Germany — Traditional single-cell sequencing methods help to reveal insights about cellular differences and functions – but they do this with static snapshots only rather than time-lapse...

Chlamydia: Greedy for Glutamine

August 4, 2020
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Würzburg, Germany — Chlamydia are bacteria that cause venereal diseases. In humans, they can only survive if they enter the cells. This is the only place where they find the necessary metabolites for...

A Blood Test could Predict Who Benefits from Immunotherapy

August 4, 2020
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Toronto, ON — A test which detects changing levels of tumour fragments in the blood may be an easy, non-invasive and quick way to predict who will benefit from immunotherapy, a treatment option for...

Machine Learning Makes Drug Repurposing for Psychiatric Disorders more Effective

August 4, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Artificial intelligence can increase the effectiveness of drug repositioning or repurposing research, according to a study published in Translational Psychiatry. In the study, which...

Cell Antennas Lacking in Fragile X Syndrome, Study Finds

August 3, 2020
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San Antonio, TX — Structures called primary cilia – which act like TV antennas for cells to detect signals – are present in fewer numbers in mice born with Fragile X syndrome, according...

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