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Understanding the growth of disease-causing protein fibres
Amyloid fibrils are deposits of proteins in the body that join together to form microscopic fibres. Their formation has been linked to many serious human diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Type 2 diabetes.
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Starving tuberculosis of sugars may be a new way to fight it
Tuberculosis is a devastating disease that claims over 1.5 million lives each year. The increase in TB cases that are resistant to the current antibiotics means that novel drugs to kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are ...
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Apr 15, 2021
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A simplified new process transforms wood waste from agriculture and forest management into ethanol
Reliance on petroleum fuels and raging wildfires: Two separate, large-scale challenges that could be addressed by one scientific breakthrough.
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Apr 15, 2021
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Picosecond electron transfer in peptides can help energy technologies
Biological energy flows, such as in photosynthesis and respiration, depend on the transfer of electrons from one molecule to another. Despite its importance to sustaining life, factors governing the rate of electron transfer, ...
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Apr 14, 2021
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SmartFarm device harvests air moisture for autonomous, self-sustaining urban farming
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has recently developed a simple solution to address two of the world's biggest problems—water scarcity and food shortage. They created a solar-powered, ...
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Apr 14, 2021
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Researchers streamline molecular assembly line to design, test drug compounds
Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a way to fine-tune the molecular assembly line that creates antibiotics via engineered biosynthesis. The work could allow scientists to improve existing antibiotics ...
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Apr 13, 2021
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When FRETing over cancer biomarkers won't work, focus on blinking instead
Fluorescence spectroscopy is indispensable in biomedical diagnostics. One can think of turning on fluorescence as turning on a flashlight in a dark room. A diagnostic assay can be designed to label, for example, a specific ...
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Apr 13, 2021
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A new fluorescent probe that can distinguish B cells from T cells
Human blood contains several different components, including plasma, red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs), and platelets. Among these, WBCs are divided into numerous subcategories each with unique functions and ...
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Apr 13, 2021
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A multidimensional view of SARS-CoV-2
What exactly happens when the corona virus SARS-CoV-2 infects a cell? In an article published in Nature, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry paints a comprehensive ...
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Apr 12, 2021
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Chemists develop tools that may help improve cancer diagnostics, therapeutics
Chemists developed a method to detect changes in proteins that may signal the early stages of cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes and other major diseases. Angewandte Chemie published the work, led by chemists at Emory University ...
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Apr 09, 2021
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Green chemistry and biofuel: The mechanism of a key photoenzyme decrypted
The functioning of the enzyme FAP, useful for producing biofuels and for green chemistry, has been decrypted. This result mobilized an international team of scientists, including many French researchers from the CEA, CNRS, ...
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Apr 08, 2021
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New study explains Mycobacterium tuberculosis high resistance to drugs and immunity
A consortium of researchers from Russia, Belarus, Japan, Germany and France led by a Skoltech scientist have uncovered the way in which Mycobacterium tuberculosis survives in iron-deficient conditions by utilizing rubredoxin ...
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Apr 08, 2021
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Designing selective membranes for batteries using a drug discovery toolbox
Membranes that allow certain molecules to quickly pass through while blocking others are key enablers for energy technologies from batteries and fuel cells to resource refinement and water purification. For example, membranes ...
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Apr 07, 2021
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Scientists develop eco-friendly pollen sponge to tackle water contaminants
A team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has created a reusable, biodegradable sponge that can readily soak up oil and other organic solvents from contaminated water sources, ...
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Apr 07, 2021
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A novel form of cellular logistics
Biophysicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that a phenomenon known as diffusiophoresis, which can lead to a directed particle transport, can occur in biological systems.
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Apr 06, 2021
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Stimulation of tiny areas on cellular surfaces with free radicals using a microfluidic probe
Could there be a way to chemically manipulate small, confined areas on cellular surfaces? Scientists have developed a microfluidic probe to send a flow of free radicals on live cells and track the outcome using fluorescence ...
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Apr 06, 2021
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Microbial production of a natural red colorant carminic acid
A research group at KAIST has engineered a bacterium capable of producing a natural red colorant, carminic acid, which is widely used for food and cosmetics. The research team reported the complete biosynthesis of carminic ...
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Apr 06, 2021
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A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors
In recent years, scientists have developed many strains of engineered bacteria that can be used as sensors to detect environmental contaminants such as heavy metals. If deployed in the natural environment, these sensors could ...
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Apr 06, 2021
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Using electrical pulses for vaccine efficiency
Vladislav Yakovlev, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is part of a multiuniversity team researching how electrical and optical pulses can benefit cell absorption of materials, ...
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Apr 06, 2021
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Deep dive into key COVID-19 protein is a step toward new drugs, vaccines
Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Science have taken a key step toward new drugs and vaccines for combating COVID-19 with a deep dive into one protein's interactions with SARS-CoV-2 genetic material.
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Apr 05, 2021
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