Got slime? Using regenerative biology to restore mucus production
Let's talk about slime.
Molecular & Computational biology
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Watching bat coronaviruses with next-generation sequencing
In late 2019, a mysterious coronavirus—now called 2019-nCoV—began making people sick in Wuhan, China. Now the virus has spread to at least four other countries, including the United States, and killed at least nine people.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 29, 2020
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Four ways climate change is affecting our health—and what we can do about it
Climate change is already affecting our health, even if we don't think about it much, says a University of Alberta public health expert.
Environment
Jan 23, 2020
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Finally, machine learning interprets gene regulation clearly
In this age of "big data," artificial intelligence (AI) has become a valuable ally for scientists. Machine learning algorithms, for instance, are helping biologists make sense of the dizzying number of molecular signals that ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 26, 2019
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Can a special diet save the endangered southern corroboree frog?
A University of Wollongong-led research team has released 115 southern corroboree frogs into a remote part of Kosciusko National Park. They are studying whether frogs fed dietary carotenoids in captivity have improved rates ...
Ecology
Dec 19, 2019
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Blue mushroom dye used to develop new fluorescent tool for cell biologists
A new fluorescent tool for detecting reactive oxygen species based on a chemical found in mushrooms has been developed by scientists at the University of Bath.
Materials Science
Dec 17, 2019
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Ancient worm reveals way to destroy toxic cells in Huntington's disease
Insights from their study may provide a novel therapeutic approach for diseases such as Huntington's and Parkinson's.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 7, 2019
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Researchers use genomics to discover potential new treatment for parasite disease
Using innovative RNA sequencing techniques, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Institute for Genome Sciences identified a promising novel treatment for lymphatic filariasis, a disabling parasitic ...
Biotechnology
Dec 3, 2019
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Potential harm of new viruses predicted by study
The threat to global human health posed by newly emerging viruses such as Ebola, SARS and the Zika virus can be predicted, a study has found.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 2, 2019
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Gene deletion study identifies many new targets in malaria pathogen
Despite great efforts in medicine and science, more than 400,000 people worldwide are still dying of malaria. The infectious disease is transmitted by the bite of mosquitoes infected with the malaria parasite Plasmodium. ...
Biotechnology
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