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Biotechnology Oct 30, 2023

Controlling organoids with light by combining spatial transcriptomics with optogenetics

They look like storm clouds that could fit on the head of a pin: Organoids are three-dimensional cell cultures that play a key role in medical and clinical research. This is thanks to their ability to replicate tissue structures ...

Plants & Animals Oct 30, 2023

Fruit fly study sheds light on how organisms regulate feeding/fasting cycles

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used fruit flies to study how daily eating patterns are regulated. They found that the quasimodo (qsm) gene helped sync feeding to light/dark cycles, but not in constant ...

Plants & Animals Aug 20, 2023

Ultrasound can briefly induce a hibernation-like state in animals

Science fiction has long described sophisticated technology that can temporarily put humans into a suspended state, permitting characters to awaken far into the future, often after extended journeys through space. In reality, ...

Biotechnology Mar 31, 2023

Scallop eyes as inspiration for new microscope objectives

Neuroscientists at the University of Zurich have developed innovative objectives for light microscopy by using mirrors to produce images. Their design finds correspondence in mirror telescopes used in astronomy on the one ...

Cell & Microbiology Mar 24, 2023

Important step towards accurate use of stem cell–based disease models

Induced pluripotent stem cells offer great therapeutic potential and are a valuable tool for understanding how different diseases develop. New research shows that such stem cell lines should be regularly screened for genetic ...

Biochemistry Mar 14, 2023

Mirror-imaging in molecules can modify neuron signaling

With the aid of some sea slugs, University of Nebraska–Lincoln chemists have discovered that one of the smallest conceivable tweaks to a biomolecule can elicit one of the grandest conceivable consequences: directing the activation ...

Plants & Animals Feb 27, 2023

Slime molds are not actually fungi at all, but they are brainless predators

In HBO's post-apocalyptic drama "The Last of Us," human civilization has fallen in the face of a fungal takeover triggered by climate change.

Biochemistry Feb 27, 2023

New technique probes chemistry of enzyme implicated in Alzheimer's and cancer

If serine racemase is the magician that for decades disguised its trick—inverting an amino acid to assist learning and memory but also levitate risks of Alzheimer's and stroke—chemists just snuck a high-res camera behind ...

Plants & Animals Nov 25, 2022

Big brains bring change: Inside the social life of spiders

For anyone with arachnophobia, the only thing worse than finding a lone spider dangling in a doorway or resting on your rear-view mirror is finding a whole cluster. 

Plants & Animals Jul 1, 2022

How reindeer eyes transform in winter to give them twilight vision

Reindeer are loved the world over for their dark, expressive eyes, majestic antlers and magical association with Santa Claus. The moment you learn the cold, hard truth of how Christmas presents arrive under the tree is a ...

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