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New Biomaterial Regrows Blood Vessels and Bone

April 21, 2021
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Dublin, Ireland — Scientists have developed a new biomaterial that regrows blood vessels and bone, potentially providing a single-stage approach when repairing large bone defects. The study, led...

Chickens and Pigs with Integrated Genetic Scissors

April 21, 2021
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Munich, Germany — Researchers at the TUM have demonstrated a way to efficiently study molecular mechanisms of disease resistance or biomedical issues in farm animals. Researchers are now able to introduce...

Biologists Discover a New Type of Placental Structure in Animals

April 21, 2021
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St Petersburg, Russia — The Cyclostomata is an ancient group of aquatic colonial suspension-feeders from the phylum Bryozoa. The fact that they have unique placentae has been discovered by researchers...

Chaperone Protein Imbalance Promotes Toxic Tau Buildup in Ageing Brain

April 21, 2021
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Tampa, FL — Chaperone protein imbalance can play a significant role in initiating toxic accumulation of tau in the ageing brain – an early step in the development of Alzheimer’s disease...

‘Information Theory’ Recruited to Help Scientists Find Cancer Genes

April 21, 2021
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Baltimore, MD — Using a widely known field of mathematics designed mainly to study how digital and other forms of information are measured, stored and shared, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine and...

Helpful, Engineered ‘Living’ Machines in the Future?

April 21, 2021
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State College, PA — Engineered, autonomous machines combined with artificial intelligence have long been a staple of science fiction, and often in the role of villain like the Cylons in the “Battlestar...

Drug Development Platform could Provide Flexible, Rapid and Targeted Antimicrobials

April 21, 2021
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Boulder, CO — When disease outbreaks happen, response time in developing and distributing treatments is crucial to saving lives. Unfortunately, developing custom drugs as countermeasures is often a...

Gut’s Immune Response in COVID-19 may not Provide Efficient Protection of Other Organs

April 20, 2021
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Erlangen, Germany — Our guts may not provide long-lasting systemic immunity from COVID-19, which is where immune cells circulate through the body to provide protection to other organs, finds a new...

Study reveals a unique mode of cell migration on soft ‘viscoelastic’ surfaces

April 20, 2021
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Stanford, CA — Inside your body, cell movement plays a crucial role in many significant biological processes, including wound healing, immune responses and the potential spread of cancer. “Most...

Surprising Ionic and Flow Behaviours with Functionalized Nanochannels

April 20, 2021
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College Park, MD — Nanochannels have important applications in biomedicine, sensing, and many other fields. Though engineers working in the field of nanotechnology have been fabricating these tiny,...

Scientists Identify Protein that could Serve as Therapeutic Target in Lung Cancer

April 20, 2021
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Richmond, VA — Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have identified a protein that operates in tandem with a specific genetic mutation to spur lung cancer growth and could serve as a therapeutic...

Tiny Implantable Tool for Light-Sheet imaging of brain activity

April 20, 2021
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Cardiff, UK — Tools that allow neuroscientists to record and quantify functional activity within the living brain are in great demand. Traditionally, researchers have used techniques such as functional...

Scientists Discover a New Gene Regulation Mechanism

April 19, 2021
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — A team of scientists from Russia studied the role of double-stranded fragments of the maturing RNA and showed that the interaction between distant parts of the RNA can regulate...

Researchers Use Laser Paintbrush to Create Miniature Masterpieces

April 19, 2021
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Washington, DC — Researchers are blurring the lines between science and art by showing how a laser can be used to create artistic masterpieces in a way that mirrors classical paints and brushes. The...

Researchers Grow Stem Cells to Cure Glaucoma

April 19, 2021
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — A joint research carried out by MIPT scientists and Harvard researchers have presented retinal cells that can integrate into the retina. This is the first successful attempt...

Leg muscle action assists blood flow independently of age

April 19, 2021
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Ishikawa, Japan — Chronic lower-limb edema (CLE) — the permanent accumulation of fluid in the leg — often occurs in elderly people. The condition leads to various physical and mental problems,...

Study Identifies new targets in the angiogenesis process

April 19, 2021
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Sevilla, Spain — Angiogenesis is a process of new vessel formation that is activated both in physiological (tissue repair, reproduction, etc.) and pathological (myocardial infarction, diabetic retinopathy,...

Virologists Develop Broadly Protective Coronavirus Vaccines

April 19, 2021
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Blacksburg, VA — A candidate vaccine that could provide protection against the COVID-19 virus and other coronaviruses has shown promising results in early animal testing. The candidate coronavirus...

COVID-19: Scientists Identify Human Genes that Fight Infection

April 19, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified a set of human genes that fight SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19. Knowing which genes help control viral infection...

How Tangled Proteins Kill Brain Cells, Promote Alzheimer’s, CTE

April 19, 2021
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Boulder, CO — Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimer’s disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and you’ll...

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