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In Breast Cancer, the Best Defence Is a Strong Offence

December 8, 2021
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Your immune system is constantly patrolling your body to keep you healthy. Sometimes, immune cells are also called into action to address a potential problem. Cold Spring Harbor...

Smart Transformable Nanoparticles Promise Advances in Tumour Diagnoses, Treatment

December 8, 2021
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Washington, DC — For more than three decades, biomedical nanomaterials have been successfully developed for the benefit of theranostics — a compound term referring to the diagnoses and treatment...

That’s So Meta(Transcriptomics): Distinctive Bacterial Taxonomic and Functional Profiles in Mouth Disease

December 8, 2021
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Tokyo, Japan – When you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you; but what happens when gum or tooth disease starts to dim your pearly whites? Now, researchers from Japan have found a bacterial...

Changes in the Blood, Not the Heart, May Underlie Cardiac Thrombosis in COVID-19 Patients

December 8, 2021
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Philadelphia, PA — Researchers examined autopsy tissue samples of hearts from patients who died early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Frequent and extensive blood clots (thromboses) within heart vessels...

A Daily Dose of Yoghurt Could Be the Go-to Food to Manage High Blood Pressure

December 8, 2021
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Adelaide SA, Australia — Whether it’s a dollop on your morning cereal or a simple snack on the go, a daily dose of yoghurt could be the next go-to food for people with high blood pressure, according...

Low Concentrations of CO2→CO Direct Conversion Technology

December 8, 2021
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Sejong-si, Korea — A Korean research team has developed a technology that can produce carbon monoxide (CO), which has various applications in industry, by direct conversion of flue gas level low-concentration...

Researchers Create Contamination Test for Dairy Products, Using Technology That Can Be Printed Inside Containers

December 7, 2021
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Hamilton, ON, Canada — Researchers have developed a test to reveal bacterial contamination in dairy products well before they have a chance to reach anyone’s lips. Researchers at McMaster University,...

Stem Cell Study Paves Way for Manufacturing Cultured Meat

December 7, 2021
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Nottingham, UK —Scientists have obtained stem cells from livestock that grow under chemically defined conditions, paving the way for manufacturing cell cultured meat and breeding enhanced livestock. Researchers...

Engineers Discover What Makes a Tree-Killing Fungus So Hard to Destroy

December 7, 2021
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Salt Lake City, UT — It’s called Armillaria ostoyae, and it’s a gnarly parasitic fungus with long black tentacles that spread out and attack vegetation with the ferocity of a movie monster. Its...

Development of a Single-Process Platform for the Manufacture of Graphene Quantum Dots

December 3, 2021
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Sejong-si, Korea — Graphene consists of a planar structure, with carbon atoms connected in a hexagonal shape that resembles a beehive. When graphene is reduced to several nanometers (nm) in size, it...

Gene-Editing Used to Create Single Sex Mice Litters

December 3, 2021
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London, UK — Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, in collaboration with University of Kent, have used gene editing technology to create female-only and male-only mice litters with 100% efficiency. This...

Elevated Heart Rate Linked to Increased Risk of Dementia, Study Suggests

December 3, 2021
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Solna, Sweden — Having an elevated resting heart rate in old age may be an independent risk factor of dementia, according to a study at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal Alzheimer’s...

Targeting the Brain’s Immune Cells May Help Prevent or Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

December 2, 2021
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New York, NY — Targeting the Brain’s Immune Cells May Help Prevent or Treat Alzheimer’s Disease A gene mutation linked to Alzheimer’s disease alters a signalling pathway in certain immune cells...

Compound Shows Promise for Minimizing Erratic Movements in Parkinson’s Patients

December 2, 2021
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San Antonio, TX – A new study from Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) and collaborators has identified a promising drug candidate to minimize uncontrolled, erratic muscle movements,...

From Corals to Humans, a Shared Trigger for Sperm to Get in Motion

December 2, 2021
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Philadelphia, PA — If sperm can’t swim, life can’t go on. And a new study suggests that when evolution hit upon an effective strategy for making sperm move, it stuck with it. A molecular pathway...

Scientists May Have Solved an Important Part of the Mystery of Ultra-Rare Blood Clots Linked to Adenovirus-Based COVID-19 Vaccines

December 2, 2021
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Tempe, AZ — An international team of scientists believe they may have found a molecular mechanism behind the extremely rare blood clots linked to adenovirus COVID-19 vaccines. Scientists led by...

Cancer Patients Overlooked in COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

December 2, 2021
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Chicago, IL – Almost two-thirds of U.S. states failed to prioritize cancer patients for COVID-19 vaccinations, despite recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according...

Ocean Plastic Is Creating New Communities of Life on the High Seas

December 2, 2021
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Edgewater, MD — Coastal plants and animals have found a new way to survive in the open ocean—by colonizing plastic pollution. A new commentary published Dec. 2 in Nature Communications reports coastal...

Flu Virus Shells Could Improve Delivery of mRNA Into Cells

December 1, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new and potentially more effective way to deliver messenger RNA (mRNA) into cells. Their approach involves packing...

Bringing 400-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Armoured Worms to ‘Virtual’ Life

December 1, 2021
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Columbia, MO — An international team of scientists from the United States and Australia, led by Sarah Jacquet at the University of Missouri, has documented the discovery of two new species of fossilized...

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