When Terrie Williams began hearing about the wide range of symptoms experienced by patients with COVID-19, she saw a connection between the various ways the disease is affecting people and the many physiological adaptations ...
Biochemistry
Dec 3, 2020
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University of Central Florida material sciences engineers Melanie Coathup and Sudipta Seal have designed a cerium oxide nanoparticle—an artificial enzyme—that protects bones against damage from radiation. The nanoparticle ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 26, 2022
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Nonlinear light microscopy has revolutionized our ability to observe and understand complex biological processes. However, light can also damage living matter. Yet, the mechanism behind the irreversible perturbation of cellular ...
Optics & Photonics
May 23, 2024
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How variable are gene transcripts and proteins, the molecules of life, across the tissues and organs of the human body? Furthermore, how variable are they within the same tissue type from different people? Understanding this ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2019
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A chemist and kinesiologist got on a bus, but this isn't the set-up to a joke. Instead, kinesiologist and lead author Ned Debold and chemist Dhandapani Venkataraman, "DV," began talking on their bus commute to the University ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 14, 2020
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Researchers have developed a unique 3D printed system for harvesting stem cells from bioreactors, offering the potential for high quality, wide-scale production of stem cells in Australia at a lower cost.
Biotechnology
Jun 16, 2022
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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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Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, clothing production has been on an unsustainable path. Like most manufacturing, textiles are produced in a linear fashion with a cradle-to-grave model. Fabrics like cotton are ...
Biochemistry
Sep 28, 2022
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A team of environmental and marine biologists from Liverpool John Moores University and the Natural History Museum, both in the U.K., has found that studying sea sponge tissue can reveal the nature of the fish community living ...
A new tool has been created to explain how tissue growth leads to the range of plant and animal forms we see around us.
Plants & Animals
May 31, 2019
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