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MicroLED Neural Probe for Neuroscience

January 15, 2021
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Toyohashi, Japan — Associate Professor Hiroto Sekiguchi and Ph.D. candidate Hiroki Yasunaga in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology...

Gene-Editing Produces Tenfold Increase in Superbug Slaying Antibiotics

January 15, 2021
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Norwich, UK — Scientists have used gene-editing advances to achieve a tenfold increase in the production of super-bug targeting formicamycin antibiotics. The John Innes Centre researchers used...

Nanoparticle Immunization Technology could Protect Against Many Strains of Coronaviruses

January 15, 2021
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Pasadena, CA — The SARS-CoV-2 virus that is causing the COVID-19 pandemic is just one of many different viruses in the coronavirus family. Many of these are circulating in populations of animals like...

Detecting COVID-19 Antibodies in 10-12 Seconds

January 13, 2021
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Pittsburgh, PA — Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University report findings on an advanced nanomaterial-based biosensing platform that detects, within seconds, antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2, the...

NIST Publishes a Beginner’s Guide to DNA Origami

January 12, 2021
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Gaithersburg, MD — In a technique known as DNA origami, researchers fold long strands of DNA over and over again to construct a variety of tiny 3D structures, including miniature biosensors and drug-delivery...

Stem Cells Use Piston-like Engine to ‘Drive’ to Their Destinations

January 12, 2021
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Stanford, CA — Our bodies often dispatch stem cells to mend or replace biological damage, but how these repair agents make their way through dense tissue to arrive at the scene had been a mystery....

Making Therapeutic Sense of Antisense Oligonucleotides

January 11, 2021
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Tokyo, Japan — Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Ionis Pharmaceuticals, USA, report a modification wherein replacing the RNA strand of a heteroduplex oligonucleotide with...

Natural Products with Potential Efficacy Against Lethal Viruses

January 11, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego have broken down the genomic and...

New Nanobiomaterial from the Silk of a Mite with ‘Promising Biomedical Properties’

December 18, 2020
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La Rioja, Spain — An international team of researchers has developed a new nanomaterial from the silk produced by the Tetranychus lintearius mite. This nanomaterial has the ability to penetrate human...

New Discovery Opens Novel Pathway for High-Titer Production of Drop-In Biofuels

December 18, 2020
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Aarhus, Denmark — New discovery opens novel pathway for high-titer production of drop-in biofuels Using an unusual, light-dependent enzyme and a newly discovered enzymatic mechanism, researchers...

Fibrous Protein Finding may Lead to Improved Bioprinting, Tissue Engineering

December 18, 2020
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State College, PA — Fibrous proteins such as collagen and fibrinogen form a thin solid layer on the surface of an aqueous solution similar to the “skin” that forms on warm milk, according...

Scientists Set a Path for Field Trials of Gene Drive Organisms

December 18, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — The modern rise of gene drive research, accelerated by CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology, has led to transformational waves rippling across science. Gene drive organisms (GDOs),...

Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Adapt

December 17, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Getting computers to “think” like humans is the holy grail of artificial intelligence, but human brains turn out to be tough acts to follow. The human brain is a master of...

RNA Basic Building Block Produced Biocatalytically for the First Time

December 16, 2020
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Graz, Austria — Due to the COVID 19 pandemic and the associated intensive search for therapeutics and vaccines, the chemical substance class of nucleosides is experiencing an enormous increase in interest....

Researchers Uncover Blind Spots at the Intersection of AI and Neuroscience

December 16, 2020
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West Lafayette, IN — Is it possible to read a person’s mind by analyzing the electric signals from the brain? The answer may be much more complex than most people think. Purdue University...

Industrial Waste is Reused to Produce Alternatives to Plastic

December 15, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — In Brazil, researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Ilha Solteira have developed a film that can replace plastic in food packaging. The film is made from hydroxypropyl...

The Machine as Extension of the Body

December 14, 2020
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Munich, Germany — Combining neuroscience and robotic research has gained impressive results in the rehabilitation of paraplegic patients. A research team led by Prof. Gordon Cheng from the Technical...

Development of High-Speed NanoPCR Technology for Point-of-Care Diagnosis of COVID-19

December 10, 2020
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Daejeon, South Korea — A “nanoPCR” technology was developed for the point-of-care (POC) diagnosis of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). This new technology can diagnose the infection within...

Engineers Discover New Microbe for Simpler, Cheaper and Greener Wastewater Treatment

December 10, 2020
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Singapore — Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new way to treat sewage that is much simpler, cheaper and greener than existing methods. Led by Associate...

The World’s First DNA ‘Tricorder’ in Your Pocket

December 8, 2020
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists developed the world’s first mobile genome sequence analyzer, a new iPhone app called iGenomics. By pairing an iPhone with...

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