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New Biomaterial Regrows Blood Vessels and Bone

April 21, 2021
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Dublin, Ireland — Scientists have developed a new biomaterial that regrows blood vessels and bone, potentially providing a single-stage approach when repairing large bone defects. The study, led...

Chickens and Pigs with Integrated Genetic Scissors

April 21, 2021
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Munich, Germany — Researchers at the TUM have demonstrated a way to efficiently study molecular mechanisms of disease resistance or biomedical issues in farm animals. Researchers are now able to introduce...

Helpful, Engineered ‘Living’ Machines in the Future?

April 21, 2021
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State College, PA — Engineered, autonomous machines combined with artificial intelligence have long been a staple of science fiction, and often in the role of villain like the Cylons in the “Battlestar...

Drug Development Platform could Provide Flexible, Rapid and Targeted Antimicrobials

April 21, 2021
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Boulder, CO — When disease outbreaks happen, response time in developing and distributing treatments is crucial to saving lives. Unfortunately, developing custom drugs as countermeasures is often a...

Surprising Ionic and Flow Behaviours with Functionalized Nanochannels

April 20, 2021
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College Park, MD — Nanochannels have important applications in biomedicine, sensing, and many other fields. Though engineers working in the field of nanotechnology have been fabricating these tiny,...

Tiny Implantable Tool for Light-Sheet imaging of brain activity

April 20, 2021
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Cardiff, UK — Tools that allow neuroscientists to record and quantify functional activity within the living brain are in great demand. Traditionally, researchers have used techniques such as functional...

Scientists Discover a New Gene Regulation Mechanism

April 19, 2021
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — A team of scientists from Russia studied the role of double-stranded fragments of the maturing RNA and showed that the interaction between distant parts of the RNA can regulate...

Simulations Reveal How Dominant SARS-CoV-2 Strain Binds to Host, Succumbs to Antibodies

April 19, 2021
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Los Alamos, NM — Large-scale supercomputer simulations at the atomic level show that the dominant G form variant of the COVID-19-causing virus is more infectious partly because of its greater ability...

Designing Better Antibody Drugs with Artificial Intelligence

April 16, 2021
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Zürich, Switzerland — Antibodies are not only produced by our immune cells to fight viruses and other pathogens in the body. For a few decades now, medicine has also been using antibodies produced...

Stretching the Boundaries of Medical Tech with Wearable Antennae

April 16, 2021
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State College, PA — Current research on flexible electronics is paving the way for wireless sensors that can be worn on the body and collect a variety of medical data. But where do the data go? Without...

Self-Assembling Nanofibers Prevent Damage from Inflammation

April 15, 2021
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Durham, NC — Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a self-assembling nanomaterial that can help limit damage caused by inflammatory diseases by activating key cells in the immune system....

Superbug Killer: New Nanotech Destroys Bacteria and Fungal Cells

April 15, 2021
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Melbourne, Australia — Researchers have developed a new superbug-destroying coating that could be used on wound dressings and implants to prevent and treat potentially deadly bacterial and fungal infections. The...

Protein can Release Trapped Histones in the Cell

April 15, 2021
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Copenhagen, Denmark — In the cell nucleus histones play a crucial role packaging DNA into chromatin. Histones are however very sticky to both DNA and RNA, so to ensure they are transported to the cell...

Inside the Protein Channel that Keeps Bacteria Alive

April 14, 2021
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New York, NY — Almost all bacteria rely on the same emergency valves–protein channels that pop open under pressure, releasing a deluge of cell contents. It is a last-ditch effort, a failsafe...

Cancer DNA Blood Tests Validated by International Research Team

April 14, 2021
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Darlinghurst, Australia — An international team today reports the findings of an independent assessment of five commercially-available assays for tumour DNA sequencing – a fast, cheap and less...

More than the Sum of Mutations

April 13, 2021
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Halle (Saale), Germany — A new algorithm can predict which genes cause cancer, even if their DNA sequence is not changed. A team of researchers in Berlin combined a wide variety of data, analyzed it...

Optically Active Defects Improve Carbon Nanotubes

April 12, 2021
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Heidelberg, Germany — The properties of carbon-based nanomaterials can be altered and engineered through the deliberate introduction of certain structural “imperfections” or defects. The...

Scientists Identify New Differences Between the Sexes in Age-Related Changes to Brain Stem Cells

April 12, 2021
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Skokie, IL — Ageing and age-related brain disease do not affect women and men in the same way. The adult brain constantly generates new brain cells called neurons from stem cells, a process called...

Artificial Intelligence could ‘Crack the Language of Cancer and Alzheimer’s’

April 12, 2021
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Cambridge, UK — Powerful algorithms used by Netflix, Amazon and Facebook can ‘predict’ the biological language of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, scientists...

First Images of Cells Exposed to COVID-19 Vaccine Reveal Native-Like Coronavirus Spikes

April 9, 2021
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Southampton, UK — New research has for the first time compared images of the protein spikes that develop on the surface of cells exposed to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to the protein spike of the...

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