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Scientists Develop Method to Safely Study COVID-19, Other Contagious Diseases

September 21, 2020
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Washington, DC — Scientists and researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), submitted their findings to ACS Nano, a monthly peer-reviewed...

Rapid Blood Test could Detect Brain Injury in Minutes, Study Shows

September 21, 2020
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Pittsburgh, PA — A blood protein test could detect the severity of head trauma in under 15 minutes, according to research published recently in the Journal of Neurotrauma. By showing that glial...

‘Cellular Compass’ Guides Stem Cell Division in Plants

September 21, 2020
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Stanford, CA — The stem cells tasked with creating and maintaining biological tissues have a difficult job. They have to precisely divide to form new specialized cells, which are destined to different...

Reward and Punishment Take Similar Paths in Mouse Brain

September 17, 2020
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory (CSHL) scientists have discovered neurons in the mouse brain that help an animal learn to avoid negative experiences. The cells reside in a part...

Stem Cells Engineered to Evade Immune System Hold Promise for ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Grafts

September 17, 2020
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Durham, NC — Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) hold promise in the field of regenerative medicine for how they give rise to every other cell type in the body and for their ability to propagate indefinitely....

Decoding the Genetics that Drive Disease

September 17, 2020
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Adelaide, Australia — From Alzheimer’s to obesity, life can change dramatically if you discover you have a genetic risk of disease. Now, a new study from the Australian Centre for Precision Health,...

Wnt Pathway Gets Even more Complicated

September 17, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — The Wnt signalling pathway has been studied for decades, still it holds surprises in store. Bon-Kyoung Koo, group leader at IMBA – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the...

Researchers Discover a Cell-Cleaning System that Keeps Hearts Healthy

September 17, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — Researchers of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have discovered a cell-cleaning system that is key to keeping a healthy heart. This mechanism allows the...

Real Neurons are Noisy. Can Neural Implants Figure that Out?

September 17, 2020
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Durham, NC — If human eyes came in a package, it would have to be labeled “Natural product. Some variation may occur.” Because the million-plus retinal ganglion cells that send signals...

COVID-19 Virus Uses Heparan Sulphate to Get Inside Cells

September 17, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A molecule known as ACE2 sits like a doorknob on the outer surfaces of the cells that line the lungs. Since January 2020, researchers have known that SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus...

Study Connects Hormones We’re Born with to Lifetime Risk for Immunological Diseases

September 17, 2020
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East Lansing, MI — Differences in biological sex can dictate lifelong disease patterns, says a new study by Michigan State University researchers that links connections between specific hormones present...

Substance Use Disorders Linked to COVID-19 Susceptibility

September 15, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — A National Institutes of Health-funded study found that people with substance use disorders (SUDs) are more susceptible to COVID-19 and its complications. The research, published today...

Immune System Affects Mind and Body, Study Indicates

September 15, 2020
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St. Louis, MO — New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis helps illuminate a surprising mind-body connection. In mice, the researchers found that immune cells surrounding...

Researchers Reveal Safeguarding of Key DNA Sensor in Innate Immune System

September 14, 2020
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Chapel Hill, NC — UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have, for the first time, determined the high-resolution structure of a key DNA-sensing protein in the innate immune system called cGAS while it is bound...

Researchers Publish Striking Images of SARS-CoV-2 Infected Cells

September 14, 2020
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Chapel Hill, NC — The UNC School of Medicine laboratory of Dr. Camille Ehre, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, produced striking images in respiratory tract cultures of the infectious form of the...

Feeding Off Fusion or the Immortalization of Tumour cells

September 14, 2020
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Wien, Austria — Worldwide, cancer is the second leading cause of death – in 2018 alone, it claimed approximately 9.6 million lives, or one in six deaths. The development of cancer is incredibly...

Antibody Test Developed for COVID-19 that is Sensitive, Specific and Scalable

September 14, 2020
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Austin, TX — An antibody test for the virus that causes COVID-19, developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with Houston Methodist and other institutions, is more...

Researchers Identify Role of Protein in Development of New Hearing Hair Cells

September 14, 2020
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Baltimore, MD — Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have conducted a study that has determined the role that a critical protein plays in the development of hair cells....

Substances With Anti-Cancer Action Are Identified in Brazilian Red Propolis

September 11, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Brazilian red propolis found in beehives along the coast and mangroves in the Northeast region contains two substances with anti-cancer properties. In laboratory tests, they considerably...

New Method to Fight Cancer With Molecular Fibres

September 11, 2020
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Mainz, Germany — Cancer is a disease in which cells multiply uncontrollably, which could lead to tumour growth. In addition to radiation therapy, cancer is often combated with chemotherapy: The chemicals...

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