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Imaging Method Highlights New Role for Cellular “Skeleton” Protein

August 11, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — While your skeleton helps your body to move, fine skeleton-like filaments within your cells likewise help cellular structures to move. Now, Salk researchers have developed a new imaging...

Evolutionary Assimilation of Foreign DNA in a New Host

August 11, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — All life is subject to evolution in the form of mutations that change the DNA sequence of an organism’s offspring, after which natural selection allows the ‘fittest’...

Nanocatalysts that Remotely Control Chemical Reactions Inside Living Cells

August 11, 2020
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Pohang, South Korea — The enzymes responsible for catalytic reactions in our body’s biological reactions are difficult to use for diagnosis or treatment as they react only to certain molecules...

Adding Another Dimension to Cell Culture Model for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

August 11, 2020
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Okayama, Japan — Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare–albeit deadly–disease that affects the arteries of the lung. In PAH, abnormal growth of cells of the vascular media–or...

Success in Promoting Plant Growth for Biodiesel

August 10, 2020
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Saitama, Japan — In JST Strategic Basic Research Programs, a group of Zhongrui Duan (Researcher, Waseda University) and Motoki Tominaga (Associate professor, Waseda University) et al. succeeded in...

Integration of Gene Regulatory Networks in Understanding Animal Behaviour

August 10, 2020
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Champaign, IL — For years, scientists have attributed animal behaviour to the coordinated activities of neuronal cells and its circuits of neurons, known as the neuronal network (NN). However, researchers...

Grow Faster, Die Sooner

August 6, 2020
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Munich, Germany — Bacteria are survival artists: When they get nutrition, they multiply rapidly, albeit they can also survive periods of hunger. But, when they grow too quickly, their ability to survive...

Researchers Propose Strategy to Evaluate Tumour Photothermal Therapy in Real-Time

August 6, 2020
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Hefei, China — Photothermal therapy (PTT) is a promising alternative method for cancer treatment due to advantages of non-invasiveness, precise temporal and spatial control, strong specificity and...

AI for COVID-19 Diagnosis, Treatment, and Monitoring

August 5, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — The National Institutes of Health has launched the Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC), an ambitious effort that will harness the powers of artificial intelligence, and...

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....

Iron Study Combats Anaemia with Cutting-Edge Computer Simulation

August 4, 2020
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Parkville, Australia — A new iron intervention study has determined which of the world’s low-and-middle income countries would benefit from using iron-containing micronutrient powders to tackle...

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...

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...

New Understanding of CRISPR-Cas9 Tool could Improve Gene Editing

August 3, 2020
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Berkeley, CA — Within a mere eight years, CRISPR-Cas9 has become the go-to genome editor for both basic research and gene therapy. But CRISPR-Cas9 also has spawned other potentially powerful DNA manipulation...

Simpler, High-Accuracy Method to Detect Rare Circulating Tumour Cells in Blood Samples

August 3, 2020
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Bethlehem, PA — Metastasis – the development of tumour growth at a secondary site – is responsible for the majority of cancer-related deaths. It occurs when the primary tumour site sheds...

Tinkering with Roundworm Proteins Offers Hope for Anti-Ageing Drugs

August 3, 2020
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Daejeon, South Korea — KAIST researchers have been able to dial up and down creatures’ lifespans by altering the activity of proteins found in roundworm cells that tell them to convert sugar...

Re-Engineering Antibodies for COVID-19

July 31, 2020
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Austin, TX — With millions of COVID-19 cases reported across the globe, people are turning to antibody tests to find out whether they have been exposed to the coronavirus that causes the disease. But...

Using Artificial Intelligence to Smell the Roses

July 30, 2020
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Riverside, CA — A pair of researchers at the University of California, Riverside, has used machine learning to understand what a chemical smells like — a research breakthrough with potential...

Computational Gene Study Suggests New Pathway for COVID-19 Inflammatory Response

July 29, 2020
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Oak Ridge, TN — Analyses of lung fluid cells from COVID-19 patients conducted on the nation’s fastest supercomputer point to gene expression patterns that may explain the runaway symptoms produced...

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