Researchers at Karolinska Institutet are introducing a new gold standard quality-control tool for counting of mRNA molecules in single cell sequencing. The new method is described in the journal Nature Methods.
Biotechnology
Jun 3, 2022
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Knowing what causes dandelions to spread could help us understand how the plants respond to climate change, and could even help us design new "soft" robots.
Plants & Animals
Jun 1, 2022
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Scientists at Scripps Research have unveiled a new software tool for studying RNA (ribonucleic acid) molecules, which have a host of critical roles in organisms. The open-source app, "Pytheas," described May 3, 2022, in Nature ...
Biotechnology
May 3, 2022
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Scientists at Scripps Research have invented a way to image, across different tissues and with higher precision than ever before, where drugs bind to their targets in the body. The new method could become a routine tool in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 29, 2022
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There are cells in the body known as pluripotent stem cells that are yet to specialize in a particular biological function. These cells maintain the potential to become any of the possible cell types in an organism. Pluripotent ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 28, 2022
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The brain is the organ that orchestrates all the diverse functions and complex decisions that take place in biological systems. Despite its critical nature, it is equally as fragile: the neurons that make up the brain do ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 27, 2022
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A team of scientists has created a powerful new method for generating protein drugs. Using computers, they designed molecules that can target important proteins in the body, such as the insulin receptor, as well as vulnerable ...
Biochemistry
Mar 25, 2022
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A research team led by Prof. Liu Baozhong from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) revealed that cytoskeletal molecules (actomyosin) play a key role in the early shell formation of the patellogastropod ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have for the first time been able to create an RNA molecule that replicates, diversifies and develops complexity, following Darwinian evolution. This has provided the first empirical ...
Evolution
Mar 18, 2022
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A team at HZB has developed a method of experimentally unraveling tautomeric mixtures. Based on resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at BESSY II, not only proportions of the tautomers can be deduced, but the properties ...
Biochemistry
Mar 17, 2022
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