Some people might consider mucus an icky bodily secretion best left wrapped in a tissue, but to a group of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, snot is an endlessly fascinating subject. The team ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 9, 2014
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If you hop like a kangaroo, you might be able feel the air being pushed out of your lungs. Here's why it happens and why it matters.
Plants & Animals
Jun 12, 2018
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A new antibody could dramatically boost strength and muscle mass in patients with cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sporadic inclusion body myositis, and in elderly patients with sarcopenia according to ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 19, 2013
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As a part of the human immune system, white blood cells create a number of enzymes that help fight disease. Sometimes, these enzymes damage tissues in inflammatory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer ...
Biochemistry
Jan 5, 2015
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Researchers who work with tiny drug carriers known as lipid nanoparticles have developed a new type of material capable of reaching the lungs and the eyes, an important step toward genetic therapy for hereditary conditions ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 4, 2024
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Persistent lung infections, chronic wounds, and health care-associated infections are typically much more difficult to treat than other types of bacterial infections. This is because they are often caused by biofilms, that ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 7, 2022
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Let's talk about slime.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 31, 2020
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Southern California sunshine means sparkling beach weather, but this summer it's contributing to a return of a traditional nemesis: smog.
Environment
Aug 12, 2016
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A rare genetic disease called dyskeratosis congenita, caused by the rapid shortening of telomeres (protective caps on the ends of chromosomes), can be mimicked through the study of undifferentiated induced pluripotent stem ...
Biotechnology
May 23, 2011
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Biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate as infectious diseases increasingly spill over from wildlife to humans. Disease ecologists fervently debate whether biodiversity loss leads to an increased disease risk. Now, ...
Ecology
Jul 18, 2018
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