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Enzymes Edit SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the Body, Perhaps Fueling the Virus’ Evolution

May 21, 2020
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Washington, D.C — Two human deaminase enzymes edit the RNA of the SARS-CoV-2 virus when it enters a patient’s body, with implications for the evolution of the virus and the spread of the infection,...

Location, Location, Location: The Cell Membrane Facilitates RAS Protein Interactions

May 21, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Many cancer medications fail to effectively target the most commonly mutated cancer genes in humans, called RAS. Now, Salk Professor Geoffrey Wahl and a team of scientists have uncovered...

Not All Multiple Sclerosis-Like Diseases are Alike

May 21, 2020
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Sendai, Japan — An antibody appears to make a big difference between multiple sclerosis and other disorders affecting the protective myelin sheath around nerve fibers, report Tohoku University scientists...

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...

COVID-19 Cytokine Storm: Possible Mechanism for the Deadly Respiratory Syndrome

May 20, 2020
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Hokkaido, Japan —Research into how the SARS-CoV-2 virus induces death is suggesting potential treatments for its most destructive complications. Leading immunologists in Japan are proposing a possible...

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...

Antibody Neutralizes SARS and COVID-19 Coronaviruses

May 20, 2020
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Seattle, WA — An antibody first identified in a blood sample from a patient who recovered from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003 inhibits related coronaviruses, including the cause of COVID-19. The...

Researcher Envisions Energy and Environment Landscape After COVID-19

May 20, 2020
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Stanford, CA — As people shelter in place to slow the spread of COVID-19, daily carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have dropped by as much as 17 percent globally, according to a new study by the Global...

Clinical Trial Shows Ability of Stem Cell-Based Topical Solution to Regrow Hair

May 19, 2020
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Durham, NC — The results of a clinical trial released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine demonstrate how a topical solution made up of stem cells leads to the regrowth of hair for people with...

Scientists Find Brain Center that ‘Profoundly’ Shuts Down Pain

May 19, 2020
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Durham, NC — A Duke University research team has found a small area of the brain in mice that can profoundly control the animals’ sense of pain. Somewhat unexpectedly, this brain center turns...

How Experiencing Traumatic Stress Leads to Aggression

May 19, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — Traumatic stress can cause aggression by strengthening two brain pathways involved in emotion, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. Targeting those pathways via deep...

Stitching Together the Structure of the DNA Replication Toolbelt

May 19, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — The molecular machinery responsible for replicating human DNA has come into sharper focus and deepened understanding of this fundamental biological process and how it can malfunction....

Genome-Wide Pattern Found in Tumours from Brain Cancer Patients Predicts Life Expectancy

May 19, 2020
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Salt Lake City, UT — For the past 70 years, the best indicator of life expectancy for a patient with glioblastoma (GBM) — the most common and the most aggressive brain cancer — has simply...

‘Hot and Messy’ Entanglement of 15 Trillion Atoms

May 19, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Quantum entanglement is a process by which microscopic objects like electrons or atoms lose their individuality to become better coordinated with each other. Entanglement is at the...

New Technology will Show How RNA Regulates Gene Activity

May 19, 2020
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — The discovery of a huge number of long non-protein coding RNAs, aka lncRNAs, in the mammalian genome was a major surprise of the recent large-scale genomics projects. An international...

Chemists Develop Foolproof New Test to Track the Fats We Eat

May 19, 2020
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Hamilton, ON — A team of researchers at McMaster University has developed a reliable and accurate blood test to track individual fat intake, a tool that could guide public health policy on healthy...

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