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New Tool Predicts Changes that may Make COVID Variants more Infectious

October 4, 2021
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University Park, PA — As SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve, new variants are expected to arise that may have an increased ability to infect their hosts and evade the hosts’ immune systems. The first...

Expanding the Genetic Code with Quadruplet Codons

October 4, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — One of modern biologists’ most ambitious goals is to learn how to expand or otherwise modify the genetic code of life on Earth, in order to make new, artificial life forms. Part of the...

Tracking Muscle Activity with Clothes on Your Back

October 1, 2021
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Washington, DC — Bioelectrical sensors on the skin can be used to measure electrical signals in the body, like heart activity and muscle contraction. While that provides valuable information for clinicians,...

3D Printed Vaccine Patch Offers Vaccination Without a Shot

September 29, 2021
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Chapel Hill, NC — Scientists at Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a 3D-printed vaccine patch that provides greater protection than a typical vaccine...

Microneedle Patch Delivers COVID-19 DNA Vaccine; Doesn’t Require Cold Storage

September 28, 2021
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Beijing, China — More than 2 billion people worldwide are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. However, many who live in resource-limited countries haven’t been able to get vaccines, partly because these...

DNA Sensor Quickly Determines Whether Viruses are Infectious

September 27, 2021
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Champaign, IL — A new sensor can detect not only whether a virus is present, but whether it’s infectious – an important distinction for containing viral spread. Researchers at the University of...

Inspired by Bacteria and Sperm, Scientists Make Micro-Robot Swimmers

September 27, 2021
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Ithaca, NY — Scientists at Cornell University have created cell-size robots that can be powered and steered by ultrasound waves. Despite their tiny size, these micro-robotic swimmers – whose movements...

Antibiotic Levels Measurable in Breath for First Time

September 24, 2021
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Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany — A team of engineers and biotechnologists at the University of Freiburg has for the first time shown in mammals that the concentration of antibiotics in the body can...

Novel Assay Finds New Mechanism Underlying Red Blood Cell Ageing

September 24, 2021
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Boca Raton, FL — Red blood cells are the most abundant cell type in blood, carrying oxygen throughout the human body. In blood circulation, they repetitively encounter various levels of oxygen tension....

Chemical Discovery Gets Reluctant Seeds to Sprout

September 23, 2021
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Riverside, CA — Seeds that would otherwise lie dormant will spring to life with the aid of a new chemical discovered by a UC Riverside-led team. Plants have the ability to perceive drought. When...

New Nano Particles Suppress Resistance to Cancer Immunotherapy

September 23, 2021
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Sapporo, Japan — A specially designed lipid nanoparticle could deliver immune-signaling molecules into liver macrophage cells to overcome resistance to anti-tumour immunotherapy. Hokkaido University...

Microneedles Pierce Biofilm for more Effective Topical Delivery of Antibiotics to Infected Wounds

September 21, 2021
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West Lafayette, IN — A Purdue University engineer’s patent-pending invention could improve the quality of life for millions of people suffering from diabetic foot ulcers. Rahim Rahimi, an...

Researchers Improve Optical Tissue Clearing Method to Diagnose Cancer

September 21, 2021
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Sakai, Japan — When it comes to cancer, clarity is key. The ability to visualize cancerous tumors and metastatic tissue three dimensionally (3D) can help clinicians diagnose the precise type and stage...

In Our Genes—New DNA-Based Chip can be Programmed to Solve Complex Math Problems

September 21, 2021
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Incheon, South Korea — The term ‘DNA’ immediately calls to mind the double-stranded helix that contains all our genetic information. But the individual units of its two strands are pairs of molecules...

Exosome Nanoporator: A Nanofluidic Device for Developing Exosome-Based Drug Delivery Vehicles

September 21, 2021
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Beijing, China — A research group led by Prof. YANG Hui from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has reported a novel nanofluidic device for high-throughput...

Scientists Unravel the Inner Workings of DNA Repair Enzymes

September 14, 2021
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Gwangju, South Korea — DNA is the instruction manual for every living organism, guiding the development and functioning of all biological processes. In essence, it is a molecule with a double helix...

New Technology Designed to Genetically Control Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes

September 13, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Leveraging advancements in CRISPR-based genetic engineering, researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a new system that restrains populations of mosquitoes...

New Gene-Delivery Vehicle could Make Gene Therapy for Muscle Diseases Safer and more Effective

September 10, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — Genetic muscle diseases lead to progressive muscle wasting and often early death, with few treatment options and no cure. Some gene therapies that use a harmless virus to deliver a...

A ‘Lab-free, Lab-Quality’ Testing of RNA Viruses to Prepare for Next Pandemic

September 10, 2021
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Nomi, Japan — With the rapid emergence of new infectious virus strains that result in rapid outbreaks (such as 4 variants of concern (VOCs) of SARS-CoV-2 from Alpha to Delta and 5 variants of interest...

Researchers Engineer a Mini CRISPR System that could be Easier to Deliver into Cells

September 8, 2021
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Stanford, CA — A compact and efficient CRISPR-Cas system, named CasMINI, could be broadly useful for cell-engineering and gene-therapy applications because it is easier to deliver into cells. The findings...

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