A Rice University lab is leading the effort to reveal potential threats to the efficacy and safety of therapies based on CRISPR-Cas9, the Nobel Prize-winning gene editing technique, even when it appears to be working as planned.
Cell & Microbiology
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One of the reasons for the global threat to biodiversity is that we humans introduce more nutrients into our environment than would naturally be present there, for example, when fertilizing agricultural land. In addition, ...
Ecology
Oct 24, 2022
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Molecular crystals—the building blocks that make up many drugs and other products—sometimes take on water molecules, which can alter the crystals in unforeseen ways. Notably, predicting which crystals are likely to contain ...
Biochemistry
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Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a growing threat to human health. In an article published in the journal PNAS, Umeå researcher Fredrik Almqvist and his colleagues present a new type of antibiotic that effectively ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 24, 2022
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A team of researchers at the University of Nevada has taken a step toward understanding how it is some lizards are able to withstand a black widow spider bite with few to no ill effects. In their paper published in the journal ...
The mystery of the origin of hydrocarbons found in extraterrestrial environment may finally be resolved, thanks to a technique developed by researchers at Tokyo Tech based on a 13C-13C abundance analysis. By measuring the ...
Astrobiology
Oct 24, 2022
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Call it Law and Order: Climate Change. Scientists used detective work to pinpoint the prime suspect in Earth's warming: us.
Environment
Oct 24, 2022
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Education experts are calling on the public and policy makers to show more respect for teachers following a landmark study from Monash University which revealed 70% of Australian teachers don't feel that the teaching profession ...
Education
Oct 24, 2022
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Membrane proteins are key targets for many drugs. They are located between the outside and inside of our cells. Some of them, called transporters, move certain substances in and out of the cellular environment. Yet, extracting ...
Biochemistry
Oct 24, 2022
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Every second, 100 trillion neutrinos pass through the human body. These tiny, almost massless particles travel tremendous distances through space while carrying information about their sources and are created by some of the ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 24, 2022
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