Sticky nanoparticles fight heart disease (w/ video)
Clemson University researchers have developed nanoparticles that can deliver drugs targeting damaged arteries, a non-invasive method to fight heart disease.
Clemson University researchers have developed nanoparticles that can deliver drugs targeting damaged arteries, a non-invasive method to fight heart disease.
Bio & Medicine
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Metallic nanomolecules capable of carrying drugs to exactly where they are needed could one day help to treat patients with a fatal lung condition.
Bio & Medicine
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Researchers at Luleå University of Technology have developed a method to study how muscle cells in the blood vessels of the lung permanently contract because of long-term oxygen deficiency. This phenomenon leads to increased ...
Cell & Microbiology
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(Phys.org)—One of the great problems of evolution is to understand how the major features of organisms have changed over great swaths of time. How did limbs evolve from fins? How did bird feathers arise from scales?
Evolution
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Biochemistry
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Proteins produced in cells often undergo modifications by enzymes after they are formed. One type of modification, called prenylation, adds 'tags' to proteins that tells them where to go in the cell and how to interact with ...
Biochemistry
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A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University has developed a way to simulate blood flow on the computer to optimize surgical designs. It is the basis of a new tool that may help ...
General Physics
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