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Researchers Find New Way to Make Bacteria more Sensitive to Antibiotics

August 13, 2020
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Singapore — Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have discovered a new way to reverse antibiotic resistance in...

Quick, Cost-Effective Method to Track the Spread of COVID-19

August 13, 2020
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Sapporo, Japan — A group of researchers have demonstrated that, from seven methods commonly used to test for viruses in untreated wastewater, an adsorption-extraction technique can most efficiently...

Phylogenetic Analysis Reveals Evolution of Mitochondrial Calcium Transporter

August 13, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — The system that regulates cellular calcium levels duplicated, generating two non-equivalent systems, some one billion years ago before fungi and animals diverged evolutionarily. The...

Exercise Induces Secretion of Biomarkers into Sweat

August 13, 2020
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Jyväskylä, Finland — A new study shows that in addition to blood, endurance exercise induces changes in sweat biomolecule levels. These findings lay the groundwork for the development of future noninvasive...

Porous Liquids Allow for Efficient Gas Separation

August 13, 2020
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Karlsruhe, Germany — Jointly with cooperation partners, a researcher of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed “porous liquids”: Nanoparticles, that are able to separate...

Swallowing Colonoscopy-Like Bacteria Grabber could Reveal Secrets About Your Health

August 13, 2020
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West Lafayette, IN — Your gut bacteria could say a lot about you, such as why you’re diabetic or how you respond to certain drugs. But scientists can see only so much of the gastrointestinal...

Programmed Bacteria have Something Extra

August 13, 2020
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Houston, TX — Rice University chemist Han Xiao and his team have successfully expanded the genetic code of Escherichia coli bacteria to produce a synthetic building block, a “noncanonical amino...

Researchers Identify a Protein That may Help SARS-CoV-2 Spread Rapidly Through Cells

August 13, 2020
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Fort Collins, CO — Eric Ross and Sean Cascarina, biochemistry and molecular biology researchers at Colorado State University, have released a research paper identifying a protein encoded by SARS-CoV-2,...

New Super-Resolution Method Reveals Fine Details Without Constantly Needing to Zoom In

August 13, 2020
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College Station, TX — Since the early 1930s, electron microscopy has provided unprecedented access to the alien world of the extraordinarily small, revealing intricate details that are otherwise impossible...

Lab-Created Molecule Achieves Positive Results in the Treatment of Arthritis

August 12, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Arthritis affects almost 2% of the world’s population, or some 150 million people, and currently, there is no completely effective treatment for this chronic disease. A new molecule...

Recipe for Success — Interaction Proteomics Become a Household Item

August 12, 2020
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Helsinki, Finland — Proteins in human cells do not function in isolation and their interactions with other proteins define their cellular functions. Therefore, detailed understanding of protein-protein...

Researchers Find Clues to Clarify Why Cohesine Has a Role in Cancer and Cardiac Development

August 12, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — Ana Losada, from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), is the scientist who identified cohesin in vertebrates, a protein that is essential in cell division. Losada has...

Rare Glassy Metal Discovered During Quest to Improve Battery Performance

August 12, 2020
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Idaho Falls, ID — Materials scientists studying recharging fundamentals made an astonishing discovery that could open the door to better batteries, faster catalysts and other materials science leaps. Scientists...

Researchers Explore Pollen Fertilization Mechanisms

August 12, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — A group of researchers from four countries, including Brazil, have worked out exactly how a pollen tube, the plant cell that emerges from a grain of pollen, grows up to a thousand-fold...

Technology Can Help Speed Soil Recovery After Oil Spills

August 12, 2020
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Madison WI — After an oil spill or leak, it’s important to act fast. If the oil has gotten into soil, scientists need to rapidly assess how much oil there is and how far it spread. It’s...

Molecular Additives Enhance Mechanical Properties of Organic Solar Cell Material

August 12, 2020
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Bethlehem, PA — Organic solar cells are ideal for use in flexible electronics because of the inherently malleable nature of semiconducting polymers. Recent research on the interplay between processing,...

Secretion of Sugar Polymers Modulates Multicellularity in the Bacterium Myxococcus Xanthus

August 12, 2020
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Quebec, QC, Canada — Research by INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique) Professor Salim Timo Islam and his PhD student Fares Saïdi has recently revealed that multicellular physiology...

Imaging Method Highlights New Role for Cellular “Skeleton” Protein

August 11, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — While your skeleton helps your body to move, fine skeleton-like filaments within your cells likewise help cellular structures to move. Now, Salk researchers have developed a new imaging...

From Nanocellulose to Gold

August 11, 2020
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Linköping, Sweden — When nanocellulose is combined with various types of metal nanoparticles, materials are formed with many new and exciting properties. They may be antibacterial, change colour under...

Detailed Molecular Workings of a Key System in Learning and Memory Formation

August 11, 2020
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Amherst, MA — One of the new realities in biomedical research is that it’s increasingly difficult to use a general approach to score advances. Now, investigations into disease mechanisms, for...

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