In biomedical technology, tissue engineering for the ex-vivo production of skin or organs is becoming increasingly important. This requires biocompatible microfibers with enclosed microcapsules of controlled size and shape, ...
Soft Matter
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Researchers at Nagoya University and Osaka University in Japan have found novel repair pathways of apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites of DNA. Repair of the base excision, which repairs AP sites, is an essential mechanism for ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 9, 2023
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Engineering organs to replace damaged hearts or kidneys in the human body may seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the building blocks for this technology are already in place. In the burgeoning field of tissue ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 5, 2023
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A neural crest cell (a type of stem cell) begins with the ability to differentiate into any number of specialist cell types, but it also appears to retain the capacity to "change its mind" and differentiate anew when the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 24, 2023
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Using the Australian Synchrotron researchers at the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS) and the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment were able to see the molecular structure ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 19, 2023
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Many common viruses responsible for childhood illnesses establish a home for life within us. This is evidenced in a new study carried out at the University of Helsinki and published in Nucleic Acids Research on March 23, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 12, 2023
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Last week, an Australian "cultured meat" company called Vow made headlines with a meatball made from the flesh of a wooly mammoth—or something very much like it. Combining the technologies of lab-based cell culture and ...
Biotechnology
Apr 6, 2023
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Similar to how cells within human tissues communicate and function together as a whole, bacteria are also able to communicate with each other through chemical signals, a behavior known as quorum signaling (QS). These chemical ...
Biochemistry
Apr 4, 2023
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The process of cellular differentiation, in which human pluripotent stem cells (hPCSs) progress from primitive to developmentally advanced states, is a fundamental aspect of life. Understanding this process not only sheds ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 30, 2023
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To understand how cells behave, researchers also need to understand the molecules that make them work. "If someone wants to know how the kidney functions, they have to know what's going on inside the kidney cells," says Yang ...
Biotechnology
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