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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’...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Artificial Intelligence Finds Patterns of Mutations and Survival in Tumour Images

July 28, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Researchers at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, UK, and collaborators have developed...

Neurons are Genetically Programmed to have Long Lives

July 27, 2020
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Riverside, CA — When our neurons — the principal cells of the brain — die, so do we. Most neurons are created during embryonic development and have no “backup” after birth....

Freeze-Framing the Shape-Shifting SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein

July 23, 2020
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Boston, MA — The rod-like spike proteins on the surface of SARS CoV-2 are the tip of the spear of the COVID-19 pandemic. The spikes bind to human cells via the ACE2 receptor and then dramatically change...

Cells Communicate by Doing the ‘Wave’

July 23, 2020
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Kyoto, Japan — Cells work around the clock to deliver, maintain, and control every aspect of life. And just as with humans, communication is a key to their success. Every essential biological process...

New Learning Algorithm should Significantly Expand Possible Applications of AI

July 20, 2020
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Graz, Austria — The high energy consumption of artificial neural networks’ learning activities is one of the biggest hurdles for the broad use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially in mobile...

New Method Reveals Dynamic Structure in HIV

July 17, 2020
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Salt Lake City, UT — Viruses are scary. They invade our cells like invisible armies, and each type brings its own strategy of attack. While viruses devastate communities of humans and animals, scientists...

Severely Damaged Human Lungs can Now be Successfully Recovered

July 14, 2020
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New York, NY — Respiratory disease is the third leading cause of death worldwide, and lung transplantation is still the only cure for patients with end-stage lung disease. Despite advances in the field,...

New Bioink for Cell Bioprinting in 3D

July 14, 2020
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Linköping, Sweden — A research group led by Daniel Aili, associate professor at Linköping University, has developed a bioink to print tissue-mimicking material in 3D printers. The scientists have developed...

New Tattoo: Drawing Electronics on Skin

July 14, 2020
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Columbia, MO — One day, people could monitor their own health conditions by simply picking up a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin. In a new study, University of Missouri engineers...

Safer CRISPR Gene Editing with Fewer Off-Target Hits

July 13, 2020
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Wenzhou, China — The CRISPR system is a powerful tool for the targeted editing of genomes, with significant therapeutic potential, but runs the risk of inappropriately editing “off-target”...

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