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Genetic Barcodes can Ensure Authentic DNA Fingerprints

May 25, 2020
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Durham, NC — Engineers at Duke University and the New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering have demonstrated a method for ensuring that an increasingly popular method of genetic identification...

New Technology can Detect Anti-Virus Antibody in 20 Minutes

May 25, 2020
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Sapporo, Japan — Researchers have succeeded in detecting anti-avian influenza virus antibody in blood serum within 20 minutes, using a portable analyzer they have developed to conduct rapid on-site...

Iron Nanorobots Go Undercover

May 25, 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...

New Imaging Analysis Pipeline could Aid in Drug and Vaccine Development

May 25, 2020
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Chicago, IL — From testing drugs to developing vaccines, the close study of the immune system is key to improving real-world health outcomes. T-cells are integral to this research, as these white blood...

Potentially Treatable Genetic Mutations Revealed in Subset of Prostate Cancer Patients

May 25, 2020
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Reston, VA — Prostate cancer patients who do not respond well to PSMA-targeted therapy often have potentially treatable mutations in their DNA damage-repair genes, according to research published in...

Lighting Up Cells with Genetically-Encoded X-Ray-Sensitive Probes

May 21, 2020
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Shanghai, China — Microscopic visualization of sub-cellular structures and constituents plays a central role in cell biology. Synchrotron-based X-ray microscopy (XRM) provides a unique approach for...

How to identify patients most at risk from COVID-19 through nanotechnology

May 21, 2020
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East Lansing, MI — What if doctors could not only diagnose a COVID-19 infection but identify which patients are at the greatest risk of death before any major complications arise? One Michigan State...

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...

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...

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...

New Research Finds ‘Dr. Google’ is Almost Always Wrong

May 19, 2020
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Joondalup, Australia — Many people turn to ‘Dr. Google’ to self-diagnose their health symptoms and seek medical advice, but online symptom checkers are only accurate about a third of the...

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....

‘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...

Controlling Cells with Light

May 19, 2020
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Jena, Germany — Photopharmacology investigates the use of light to switch the effect of drugs on and off. Now, for the first time, scientific teams from Jena, Munich, and New York have succeeded in...

Using Blockchain Technology to Promote Fair and Timely Outbreak Research Cooperation

May 18, 2020
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Washington, DC — In a Policy Forum, Mark van der Waal and colleagues illustrate how blockchain technology could be used to alleviate the systemic barriers that hinder cooperative research and development...

Compact Electronic Nose to Identify Human Lung Diseases

May 18, 2020
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — Researchers from Russia and Italy have proposed a compact sensor system that can implement the functionality of the electronic nose and developed a reproducible technology for...

2D Sandwich Sees Molecules with Clarity

May 18, 2020
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Houston, TX — A sandwich of molybdenum, sulfur and selenium turns out to be deliciously useful for detecting biomolecules. Tests at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering of a two-dimensional...

First Epigenetic Study in 3D Human Cancer Cells

May 14, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Frequently, promising cancer therapies fail when applied to patients in the real clinical setting. This occurs despite many of these new treatments demonstrating promising results...

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