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Scientists Develop Better Way to Block Viruses that Cause Childhood Respiratory Infections

May 11, 2021
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Madison, WI — By engineering a short chunk of protein, or peptide, that can prevent the attachment of human parainfluenza viruses to cells, researchers have improved a method in rodent models intended...

Integrating Medical Imaging and Cancer Biology with Deep Neural Networks

May 11, 2021
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Cardiff, UK — Despite our remarkable advances in medicine and healthcare, the cure to cancer continues to elude us. On the bright side, we have made considerable progress in detecting several cancers...

Research Harnesses AI to Fight Breast Cancer

May 11, 2021
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Cardiff, UK — Breast cancer has recently overtaken lung cancer to become the most common cancer globally, according to the World Health Organization. Advancing the fight against breast cancer, the...

How Proteins Control Information Processing in the Brain

May 11, 2021
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Halle, Germany — A complicated interaction between different proteins is needed for information to pass from one nerve cell to the next. Researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg...

Brain Cancer Breakthrough Provides Hope for New Treatments

May 10, 2021
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Parkville, Australia — A novel approach to immunotherapy design could pave the way for new treatments for people with an aggressive form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. Using specifically...

Rare Genetic Disease Caused by Mutations in Protein that Controls RNA Metabolism

May 10, 2021
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Pittsburgh, PA — In a paper published today in Nature Communications, an international group of collaborators led by researchers at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh have identified a genetic...

Artificial Intelligence Makes Great Microscopes Better Than Ever

May 10, 2021
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Cambridge, UK — To observe the swift neuronal signals in a fish brain, scientists have started to use a technique called light-field microscopy, which makes it possible to image such fast biological...

Winning Gene Combination Takes All

May 10, 2021
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Norwich, UK — Researchers have traced the remaining last steps of the biological pathway that gives oats resistance to the deadly crop disease take-all. The discovery creates opportunities for...

Distinct Cell-to-Cell Communication Processes Controlled Differently

May 10, 2021
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Sendai, Japan — Cells talk to each other to coordinate nutrition, waste removal, energy use, and, in some cases, disease progression. The cells that line the surfaces of organs or specific tissues,...

New Antibody Rationally Designed for Better Tumour Inhibition

May 10, 2021
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Hefei, China — Recently, Prof. XIE Can from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), in a collaboration with Prof. YAN Xiyun’s lab from the Institute...

Breaching the Blood-Brain Barrier to Deliver Precious Payloads

May 10, 2021
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Atlanta, GA — RNA-based drugs have the potential to change the standard of care for many diseases, making personalized medicine a reality. This rapidly expanding class of therapeutics are cost-effective,...

Stop the Genetic Presses!

May 10, 2021
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State College, PA — The protein, known as NusG, pauses the transcription machinery at specific DNA sequences to facilitate what is called “intrinsic termination” and prevent unwanted transcription...

Tropical Ginger Treatment for Blocking Inflammation

May 10, 2021
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Ikoma, Japan — Many natural compounds have various anti-inflammatory and other beneficial properties that humans have been utilizing for medicinal purposes for hundreds of years. However, the specific...

To Be or Not To Be: An Organoid

May 7, 2021
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Utrecht, Netherlands — Mini-organs or organoids play a big role in the future of medicine. Their countless applications can help develop and implement tailored therapies for each patient. The revolutionary...

New Evidence Links Gut Bacteria and Neurodegenerative Conditions

May 7, 2021
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Gainesville, FL — Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS affect millions of adults, but scientists still do not know what causes these diseases, which poses...

Cells are more Resilient to Environmental Changes than Previously Thought

May 7, 2021
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Toronto, ON — Cells are more resilient to environmental perturbations than previously thought, Toronto researchers have found. The finding will enable scientists to translate observations of the effects...

‘Molecular Glue’ Makes Perovskite Solar Cells Dramatically More Reliable Over Time

May 7, 2021
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Providence, RI — A research team from Brown University has made a major step toward improving the long-term reliability of perovskite solar cells, an emerging clean energy technology. In a study to...

Discovery of Genetic Drivers Linked to Progression in Parkinson’s Disease

May 7, 2021
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Boston, MA — A key driver of patients’ well-being and clinical trials for Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the course the disease takes over time. However, nearly all that is known about the...

Researchers Discover Novel Non-Coding RNAs Regulating Blood Vessel Formation

May 7, 2021
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Kuopio, Finland — Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have discovered previously unknown non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) involved in regulating the gene expression of vascular endothelial growth...

Cell Cytoskeleton as Target for New Active Agents

May 7, 2021
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Villigen, Switzerland — Through a unique combination of computer simulations and laboratory experiments, researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have discovered new binding sites for active...

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