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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Scientists Identify a Potential Target to Treat Lung Cancer

April 9, 2021
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Barcelona, Spain — In cancer, personalised medicine takes advantage of the unique genetic changes in an individual tumour to find its vulnerabilities and fight it. Many tumours have a higher number...

Novel “Hydrogel” Carriers for Anti-Cancer Drugs Offer New Hope for Cancer Treatment

April 8, 2021
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Tokyo, Japan — Cancer therapy in recent times relies on the use of several drugs derived from biological sources including different bacteria and viruses, among others. However, these bio-based drugs...

New Biosensor Makes Control Hormone Auxin Visible in Cells

April 8, 2021
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Bayreuth, Germany — The hormone auxin is of central importance for the development of plants. Scientists at the University of Bayreuth and the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen...

Origins of Life could have Started with DNA-Like XNAs

April 8, 2021
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Nagoya, Japan — Nagoya University scientists in Japan have demonstrated how DNA-like molecules could have come together as a precursor to the origins of life. The findings, published in the journal Nature...

Ultrashort Peptides Go a Long Way for Tissue Engineering

April 7, 2021
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — A new automated process prints a peptide-based hydrogel scaffold containing uniformly distributed cells. The scaffolds hold their shapes well and successfully facilitate cell...

New Method Expands the World of Small RNAs

April 7, 2021
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Riverside, CA — A team led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a new RNA-sequencing method– “Panoramic RNA Display by Overcoming RNA Modification...

Tracking Receptor Proteins can Unveil Molecular Basis of Memory and Learning

April 7, 2021
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Nagoya, Japan — The neurons in our nervous system “talk” to each other by sending and receiving chemical messages called neurotransmitters. This communication is facilitated by cell membrane...

Uprooting Cancer: Hydrogel Rapidly Reverts Cancer Cells Back to Cancer Stem Cells

March 30, 2021
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Sapporo, Japan — A hydrogel, a type of soft matter, developed at Hokkaido University successfully reverted cancer cells back to cancer stem cells within 24 hours, in six different human cancer types....

Method Offers Inexpensive Imaging at the Scale of Virus Particles

March 30, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for imaging biological samples with accuracy at the scale of 10 nanometers — which should enable them...

Study Shows Survival Mechanism for Cells Under Stress

March 30, 2021
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Stockholm, Sweden — New research reveals how cancer cells endure stress and survive. Publishing in Molecular Cell, an international research team identified mechanisms that human and mouse cells use...

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