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Research Discovery Identifies Cause of Neonatal Strokes

September 16, 2021
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Parkville, Australia — Scientists have discovered an important cause of stroke occurring in the womb or just after birth, paving the way for new treatments. The research identified that a low number...

Scientists Reveal How the Impact of Chemotherapy on Healthy Cells Affects the Development of Blood Cells

September 16, 2021
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Barcelona, Spain — Some types of chemotherapy eliminate cancer cells by damaging their DNA. These drugs can also affect healthy cells, where the damage can generate mutations that persist after the...

New 3D-Printed Sensor can Detect Glyphosate in Beverages

September 16, 2021
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Pullman, WA — A newly developed, low-cost sensor can detect and accurately measure the amount of the widely used and controversial herbicide, glyphosate, in droplets of liquid in a laboratory test. Washington...

Building the Ovarian Environment from Stem Cells

September 16, 2021
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Fukuoka, Japan — Researchers led by Kyushu University have succeeded in using mouse stem cells to reconstruct structures in the ovarian environment critical for the generation of mature egg cells....

Programming Synthetic Exosomes to Optimize Wound Healing

September 16, 2021
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Munich, Germany — Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and colleagues at the DWI Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Aachen have engineered synthetic...

Researchers Find Immune Cells that Guard Frequent Site of Cancer Spread

September 16, 2021
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Lebanon, NH — In the progressing field of immunotherapy, surprisingly little is known about immunity to metastatic tumours in locations such as lymph nodes, a frequent place where cancers first spread....

Lab-Grown Cochlear Organoids Enable Screening for Hair Cell-Inducing Drugs

September 15, 2021
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Nanjing, China — New research published in Stem Cell Reports found that organoid culture-based models for cochlear hair cell formation can be used to identify drugs that promote hair cell regeneration...

Contrary to Expectations, Study Finds Primate Neurons have Fewer Synapses than Mice in Visual Cortex

September 15, 2021
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Chicago, IL — Primates are generally considered smarter than mice. But in a surprising finding, neuroscience researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered...

Fountain of Youth for Ageing Stem Cells in Bone Marrow

September 15, 2021
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Munich, Germany — As we age, our bones become thinner, we suffer fractures more often, and bone-diseases such as osteoporosis are more likely to occur. One responsible mechanism involves the impaired...

BCL11A: Evidence for Neuroprotective Effect

September 15, 2021
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Bonn, Germany — The neurotransmitter dopamine influences the activity of a wide variety of brain areas. A deficiency of this substance can have drastic consequences: The death of dopamine-producing...

Protein from the Liver may Cause Alzheimer’s Disease in the Brain

September 15, 2021
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Bentley, Australia — Amyloid protein made in the liver can cause neurodegeneration in the brain, according to a new study in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, by John Mamo of Curtin University...

To Colonize Different Environments, Bacteria Precisely Tune Their Nanomotors

September 15, 2021
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College Station, TX — In their roughly 3.5 billion years on Earth, bacteria have fine-tuned the art of colonizing all kinds of habitats, from the inner lining of digestive tracts to the blistering...

New Study Outlines Additional Reasons for Optimism Related to Heart Regeneration

September 15, 2021
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Houston, TX — The Texas Heart Institute has announced that a new study from its prolific Cardiomyocyte Renewal Lab has been published in Circulation Research – a peer-reviewed journal from the American...

How Genetic Islands Form Among Marine Molluscs

September 14, 2021
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Bielefeld, Germany — Usually, the individuals of a population of marine species that have the potential to disperse over long distances all share a similar genetic composition. Yet every now and then,...

Scientists Explore the Creation of Artificial Organelles

September 14, 2021
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Daejeon, South Korea — The human body is made of numerous different types of cells, which have small compartments known as organelles to perform complex biochemical reactions. These compartments have...

Engineers Grow Pancreatic “Organoids” that Mimic the Real Thing

September 14, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have developed a new way to grow tiny replicas of the pancreas, using either healthy or cancerous...

Cancer Immunotherapy Gets PIP Boost

September 14, 2021
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Kyoto, Japan — A synthetic molecular code shows promise towards improving the response of some cancer patients to immunotherapy treatments. The approach involves using a molecule that can provide energy...

Docking Peptides, Slow to Lock, Open Possible Path to Treat Alzheimer’s

September 14, 2021
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Houston, TX — Progress on treating Alzheimer’s disease has been frustratingly slow. A group of scientists in Houston suggest frustration at a very small scale may lead to a new path toward treatment. Researchers...

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...

Researchers Identify a Novel Player in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia

September 13, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — A new study led by scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys has shown that the protein RNF5 plays an unusual role in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Unlike its expected role, marking aberrant...

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