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Designing Anew: Radical COVID-19 Drug Development Approach Shows Promise

July 1, 2020
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Austin, TX — Nearly every drug that is, or has ever been, used was derived from nature — harnessing compounds created by organisms over eons to fight diseases. But decades ago, biochemists postulated...

Scientists Discover a New Mechanism Controlling Liver Cancer Development

July 1, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have discovered a mechanism controlling the development of a type of liver cancer. This study, published...

Scientists Use Teflon Pipe to Make a Cheap, Simple Reactor for Silica Particle Synthesis

July 1, 2020
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Parkville, VIC, Australia —Researchers in Australia and China have proposed an innovative and cost-effective new method for creating silica beads, which have a number of key uses, ranging from nanomedicine...

Cancer Cells Make Blood Vessels Drug Resistant During Chemotherapy, Study Finds

July 1, 2020
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Hokkaido, Japan —Scientists at Hokkaido University and collaborators have identified how inflammatory changes in tumours caused by chemotherapy trigger blood vessel anomalies and thus drug-resistance,...

The Mystery of Pollen Sterility and Its Reversion in Pigeon Pea Revealed in a New Study

July 1, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — This work has been published in The Plant Genome very recently. This study has analyzed one environment-sensitive genic male sterile (EGMS) line that exhibited fertility transition...

B-Cell Protectors

July 1, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — Whenever a germ gets into the human body, the immune system usually responds immediately to fight off the enemy attacker. One of our defence system’s most important strategies...

Clinical-Grade Wearables Offer Continuous Monitoring for COVID-19

July 1, 2020
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Evanston, IL — Although it might be tempting to rely on your fitness tracker to catch early signs of COVID-19, Northwestern University researchers caution that consumer wearables are not sophisticated...

Novel Function of Platelets in Tumour Blood Vessels Found

July 1, 2020
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Uppsala, Sweden — Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a hitherto unknown function of blood platelets in cancer. In mouse models, these platelets have proved to help preserve the vascular...

Human-Artificial Intelligence Collaborations Best for Skin Cancer Diagnosis

June 30, 2020
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Brisbane, Australia — Artificial intelligence (AI) improved skin cancer diagnostic accuracy when used in collaboration with human clinical checks, an international study including University of Queensland...

Study Finds Out Why Some Words May Be More Memorable Than Others

June 30, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — Thousands of words, big and small, are crammed inside our memory banks just waiting to be swiftly withdrawn and strung into sentences. In a recent study of epilepsy patients and...

Laser-Welded Sugar: Sweet Way to 3D-Print Blood Vessels

June 30, 2020
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Houston, TX — Powdered sugar is the special ingredient in a Rice University recipe for mimicking the body’s intricate, branching blood vessels in lab-grown tissues. In research published today...

Existing Drugs can Prevent SARS-CoV-2 from Hijacking Cells

June 30, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — An international team of researchers has analysed how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, hijacks the proteins in its target cells. The research, published in the journal Cell,...

New Heart Valve could Transform Open Heart Surgery for Millions of Patients Globally

June 30, 2020
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Bristol, UK — A new polymeric heart valve with a life span potentially longer than current artificial valves that would also prevent the need for the millions of patients with diseased heart valves...

How Upregulation of Single Gene by SARS-CoV-2 can Result in Cytokine Storm

June 30, 2020
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Amsterdam NL — The SARS-CoV-19 virus initially has a limited capability to invade, attacking only one intracellular genetic target, the aryl hydrocarbon receptors (AhRs). Yet it leads to widely diverse...

Newly Designed Ligands for a Catalytic Reaction to Synthesize Drugs and Useful Compounds

June 30, 2020
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Gwangju, South Korea — Currently, various therapeutic compounds in the market, such as proteins, enzymes, and amino acids, are “chiral compounds”–molecules with two structures that...

Scientists Devise Gentle Technique to Study Heart Tissue Functioning

June 30, 2020
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — Biophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues have proposed a simple way to observe the heart tissue. Besides being relatively uncomplicated,...

Plasticity may Make Neurons Vulnerable to Alzheimer’s Disease

June 30, 2020
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New York, NY — Neurons that regularly remodel are more prone to Alzheimer’s disease and die when that remodeling goes awry, a new study suggests. The work is the first to track the progression...

New Evidence for How Blood Clots may Form in Very Ill COVID-19 Patients

June 30, 2020
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Scientists have new evidence that overactive neutrophils–a common type of circulating immune cell–may drive the life-threatening blood clots and inflammation that...

Even in Worst COVID-19 Cases, the Body Launches Immune Cells to Fight Back

June 30, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A new study from researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) shows that even the sickest COVID-19 patients produce T cells...

Microbiome Confers Resistance to Cholera

June 30, 2020
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Riverside, CA — Cholera can kill within hours if left untreated, and it sickens as many as 4 million people a year. In a new article in the journal Cell, researchers describe how gut bacteria helps...

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