A team of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers led by Bioengineering Professor Stephen Boppart has successfully visualized the tumor microenvironment of human breast tissue shortly after it was surgically ...
Biotechnology
Dec 20, 2018
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Fungi are a diverse group of organisms that are ever-present in daily life; from the yeast used to ferment beer and the mushrooms at the supermarket to the pathogen responsible for athlete's foot. Many species of fungus grow ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 24, 2018
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Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University and biomedical researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Womens Research Institute have established a framework for understanding the mechanics that underlie vesicle formation. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 6, 2017
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Beads, disks, bowls and rods: scientists at Radboud University have demonstrated the first methodological approach to control the shapes of nanovesicles. This opens doors for the use of nanovesicles in biomedical applications, ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 25, 2016
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Mention E. coli and what pops into most people's heads are bacteria, tainted food, a rush to the hospital – basically, fear.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 7, 2016
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Researchers have been unclear on how bacteria form and release certain extracellular components involved in cell adhesion and multicellular structures that also contribute to antibiotic resistance. However, a recent study ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 14, 2016
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If colloidal gold self-assembles into the form of larger vesicles, a three-dimensional state can be achieved that is called "black gold" because it absorbs almost the entire spectrum of visible light. How this novel intense ...
Nanophysics
Jul 24, 2015
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The circumstances in which a protein closely associated with Parkinson's Disease begins to malfunction and aggregate in the brain have been pinpointed in a quantitative manner for the first time in a new study.
Biochemistry
Feb 2, 2015
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Tiny, soapy bubbles can reorganize their membranes to let material flow in and out in response to the surrounding environment, according to new work carried out in an international collaboration by biomedical engineers at ...
Biochemistry
Oct 27, 2014
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Stem cells hold great promise as a means of repairing cells in conditions such as multiple sclerosis, stroke or injuries of the spinal cord because they have the ability to develop into almost any cell type. Now, new research ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 18, 2014
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