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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”...

Machine Learning Helps Grow Artificial Organs

July 9, 2020
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Dolgoprudny, Russia — Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Ivannikov Institute for System Programming, and the Harvard Medical School-affiliated Schepens Eye Research Institute...

Researchers Develop Software to Find Drug-Resistant Bacteria

July 7, 2020
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Pullman, WA — Washington State University researchers have developed an easy-to-use software program to identify drug-resistant genes in bacteria. The program could make it easier to identify the...

Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Robots can Outswim Their Natural Counterparts

July 2, 2020
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Raleigh, NC — Engineering researchers at North Carolina State University and Temple University have developed soft robots inspired by jellyfish that can outswim their real-life counterparts. More practically,...

Team Dramatically Reduces Image Analysis Times Using Deep Learning, Other Approaches

June 30, 2020
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Woods Hole, MA — A picture is worth a thousand words -but only when it’s clear what it depicts. And therein lies the rub in making images or videos of microscopic life. While modern microscopes...

Using Cellular Networks to Detect At-Risk Areas for Spread of COVID-19

June 30, 2020
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Fort Collins, CO — In the fight against COVID-19, researchers at Colorado State University have developed a new, non-invasive strategy to identify areas at greatest risk for spreading the disease. Led...

Developing New Techniques to Improve Atomic Force Microscopy

June 29, 2020
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Urbana, IL — Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology have developed a new method to improve the detection ability of nanoscale chemical imaging using atomic force microscopy....

Designer Peptides Show Potential for Blocking Viruses, Encourage Future Study

June 29, 2020
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Troy, NY — Chemically engineered peptides, designed and developed by a team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, could prove valuable in the battle against some of the most persistent...

Scientists Develop COVID-19 Accelerometer

June 23, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Araçatuba, Brazil, have developed a computational tool that acts like a “COVID-19 accelerometer,” plotting in real...

Non-Invasive Foetal Oxygen Monitor could Make for Safer Deliveries

June 18, 2020
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Davis, CA — A device to directly measure blood oxygen saturation in a foetus during labor has been developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis. By providing better information about...

New Discovery Allows 3D Printing of Sensors Directly on Expanding Organs

June 18, 2020
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Minneapolis, MN — In groundbreaking new research, mechanical engineers and computer scientists at the University of Minnesota have developed a 3D printing technique that uses motion capture technology,...

Adhesive Film Turns Smartwatch into Biochemical Health Monitoring System

June 18, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — UCLA engineers have designed a thin adhesive film that could upgrade a consumer smartwatch into a powerful health-monitoring system. The system looks for chemical indicators found...

Researchers Develop Artificial Synapse that Works with Living Cells

June 16, 2020
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Stanford, CA — In 2017, Stanford University researchers presented a new device that mimics the brain’s efficient and low-energy neural learning process. It was an artificial version of a synapse...

Unlocking PNA’s Superpowers for Self-Assembling Nanostructures

June 15, 2020
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Pittsburgh, PA — Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid (γPNA), a synthetic mimic of DNA. The...

Do COVID-19 Apps Protect Your Privacy?

June 9, 2020
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Champaign, IL — Mobile apps are helping track the spread of COVID-19 to contain the outbreak, but the apps also raise concerns about personal privacy. Information sciences professor Masooda Bashir...

New Discovery Advances Optical Microscopy

June 8, 2020
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Urbana, IL — New Illinois ECE research is advancing the field of optical microscopy, giving the field a critical new tool to solve challenging problems across many fields of science and engineering...

Genome Evolution Goes Digital

June 4, 2020
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Charlestown, MA — Dr. Alan Herbert from InsideOutBio describes ground-breaking research in a paper published online today by Royal Society Open Science. The study focuses on the digital genome that...

Scientists Engineer Human Cells with Squid-Like Transparency

June 4, 2020
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Irvine, CA — Octopuses, squids and other sea creatures can perform a disappearing act by using specialized tissues in their bodies to manipulate the transmission and reflection of light, and now researchers...

Developing a Digital Holography-Based Multimodal Imaging System to Visualize Living Cells

June 2, 2020
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Kobe, Japan — A research group led by Kobe University’s Professor MATOBA Osamu (Organization for Advanced and Integrated Research) has successfully created 3D fluorescence and phase imaging of...

Remote Control for Neurons

June 2, 2020
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Pittsburgh, PA — A team led by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has created a new technology that enhances scientists’ ability to communicate with neural cells using light. Tzahi Cohen-Karni,...

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