Cavefish are seemingly insignificant: They are small, they live in tucked away places humans rarely go, and they're quite common, found on every continent except Antarctica. But researchers from the Stowers Institute for ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2020
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Chemists at Iowa State University are developing a paper-strip urine test to detect infection by the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 17, 2020
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Researchers from the Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed a novel method for diagnosing and monitoring autoimmune disorders. ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 19, 2020
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Patients with autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis have an imbalance between two types of immune system T cells. Destructive Th17 cells that mediate chronic inflammation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 26, 2020
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Researchers can uncover how proteins interact with other proteins with far greater sensitivity and in a more natural context than conventional methods, thanks to an analytic technique developed by a RIKEN team. This will ...
Biotechnology
Feb 21, 2020
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Our microbiomes—the complex communities of microbes that live in, on and around us—are influenced by our diets, habits, environments and genes, and are known to change with age. In turn, the makeup of our microbiomes, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 11, 2020
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Scientists have created the first completely artificial protein switch that can work inside living cells to modify—or even commandeer—the cell's complex internal circuitry.
Biochemistry
Jul 24, 2019
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A combined research team from Carnegie Mellon University and Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason is pairing a nanoscale imaging technique with virtual reality (VR) technology to create a method that allows researchers ...
Engineering
Jun 13, 2019
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Foods that look the same on nutrition labels can have vastly different effects on our microbiomes, report researchers in a paper publishing June 12 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe. The researchers' observations of participants' ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 12, 2019
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A nanotechnology treatment derived from bone marrow stem cells has reversed multiple sclerosis symptoms in mice and could eventually be used to help humans, according to a new study led by University of California, Irvine ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 5, 2019
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