Is it possible to know exactly where to point a microscope in order to capture the precise moment a bacterium or a virus infects a cell? In order to take high resolution microscopic images of living biological material, you ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 7, 2023
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A commonly used scientific method to analyze a tiny amount of DNA in early human embryos fails to accurately reflect gene edits, according to new research led by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University.
Biotechnology
Mar 7, 2023
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Cells migrate to different tissues for a variety of reasons, including organ development, tissue repair and the spread of cancer. Researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 23, 2023
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Materials scientists at Cornell have developed a method for better understanding the complex electrochemical reactions that occur at the interface of water and metal surfaces—an approach that will ultimately lead to better ...
Materials Science
Feb 16, 2023
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Researchers led by Osaka University used cryogenic electron microscopy to analyze the atomic structure of the centromeric region of the chromosome, essential for cell division. A protein called CENP-A marks the centromere; ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed a new tool that uses artificial intelligence to predict the efficacy of various genome-editing repair options. Unintentional errors in the correction of DNA mutations ...
Biotechnology
Feb 2, 2023
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Researchers at Umeå University have discovered how a certain type of protein moves for DNA to be copied. The discovery could have implications for understanding how antibiotic resistance genes spread between bacteria.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 27, 2023
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A team of researchers at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, working with two colleagues from Kyoto University in Japan and another from Taipei Medical University, also in Taiwan, has identified the toxic material emitted by oyster ...
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam (Germany) analyzed the inheritance of chloroplasts under different environmental conditions in almost 4 million tobacco plants.
Plants & Animals
Jan 16, 2023
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A quantum harmonic oscillator—a structure that can control the location and energy of quantum particles that could, in the future, be used to develop new technologies including OLEDs and miniature lasers—has been made ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 12, 2023
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