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Stem Cells: New Insights for Future Regenerative Medicine Approaches

October 29, 2020
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Oeiras, Portugal — Stem cells are considered one of the most promising tools in the field of regenerative medicine because they are a cell type that can give rise to all the cells in our bodies and...

An Artificial Cell on a Chip

October 29, 2020
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Basel-Town, Switzerland — Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a precisely controllable system for mimicking biochemical reaction cascades in cells. Using microfluidic technology,...

New RNA Catalyst from the Lab

October 29, 2020
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Würzburg, Germany — Enzymes enable biochemical reactions that would otherwise not take place on their own. In nature, it is mostly proteins that function as enzymes. However, other molecules can also...

Turning a Coronavirus Protein into Nanoparticle could be Key for COVID-19 Vaccine

October 29, 2020
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Buffalo, NY — A University at Buffalo-led research team has discovered a technique that could help increase the effectiveness of vaccines against the novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19. Dr....

Scientists Discover How a Common Mutation Leads to ‘Night Owl’ Sleep Disorder

October 29, 2020
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Santa Cruz, CA — A new study by researchers at UC Santa Cruz shows how a genetic mutation throws off the timing of the biological clock, causing a common sleep syndrome called delayed sleep phase disorder. People...

New Cancer Diagnostics: A Glimpse into Tumour in 3D

October 29, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — After cancer surgery, the crucial question is: Are there possibly cancer cells left behind that can continue to grow, or has the entire tumour actually been removed? To find out,...

Scientists Map Structure of potent Antibody Against Coronavirus

October 29, 2020
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Seattle, WA — Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have shown that a potent antibody from a COVID-19 survivor interferes with a key feature on the surface of the coronavirus’s...

Identified a Subgroup of Stem Cells that Resists Ageing and Maintains Muscle Regeneration

October 29, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Researchers at UPF, the National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, ICREA and Ciberned have identified a physiological mechanism that maintains the regenerative capacity of muscle...

Food Rich in Omega-3 EPA & ALA can Reduce Risk of Death After Heart Attack, New Study Shows

October 29, 2020
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Folsom, CA — A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that regular consumption of foods rich in omega-3 eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), found in marine foods like...

Neutrons Chart Atomic Map of COVID-19’s Viral Replication Mechanism

October 29, 2020
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Oak Ridge, TN — To better understand how the novel coronavirus behaves and how it can be stopped, scientists have completed a three-dimensional map that reveals the location of every atom in an enzyme...

Study Shows How Exercise Stalls Cancer Growth Through the Immune System

October 27, 2020
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Solna, Sweden — People with cancer who exercise generally have a better prognosis than inactive patients. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found a likely explanation of why...

CRISPR Screen Identifies Genes, Drug Targets to Protect Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection

October 27, 2020
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New York, NY — To identify new potential therapeutic targets for SARS-CoV-2, a team of scientists at the New York Genome Center, New York University, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,...

Neuron-Based Gene Expression Study Reveals Insights on Fear and Its Regulation

October 27, 2020
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Belmont, MA — Fear and fear extinction learning (the gradual reduction of fear by repeated exposure to the feared object) are adaptive processes caused by molecular changes in specific brain circuits,...

New Map of the Immune Landscape in Pancreatic Cancer could Guide Immunotherapy

October 27, 2020
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Ann Arbor, MI — Stubbornly, frustratingly, pancreatic cancer has remained resistant to immunotherapies that are revolutionizing the treatment of many types of cancer. A new study led by the University...

Discovery of pH-Dependent ‘Switch’ in Interaction Between Pair of Protein Molecules

October 27, 2020
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Beijing, China — All biological processes are in some way pH-dependent. Our human bodies, and those of other organisms, need to maintain specific- and constant- pH regulation in order to function....

New Therapeutic Approach Against Leukaemia

October 27, 2020
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Martinsried, Germany — Leukaemia frequently originates from the so-called leukaemia stem cell, which resides in a tumour promoting and protecting niche within the bone marrow. Scientists from the Max...

SPOTlight Supercharges Cell Studies

October 27, 2020
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Houston, TX — Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new method to isolate specific cells, and in the process found a more robust fluorescent protein. Both...

Chemist Created a Catalyst from Orange Peel for Organic Compounds Production

October 27, 2020
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Moscow, Russia — N-heterocycles are organic substances used in the chemical industry and medicine. To produce them, expensive catalysts made from noble metals are used. A chemist from RUDN University...

Exploring the Source of Stars and Planets in Laboratory

October 27, 2020
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Princeton, NJ — A new method for verifying a widely held but unproven theoretical explanation of the formation of stars and planets has been proposed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s...

Super-Resolution Microscopy and Machine Learning Shed New Light on Fossil Pollen Grains

October 27, 2020
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Urbana, IL — Plant biology researchers at the University of Illinois and computer scientists at the University of California Irvine have developed a new method of fossil pollen identification through...

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