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NIH-funded research to investigate lower jaw development
How the lower jaw — mandible — develops and consequently how and why some developmental birth defects occur is the...
Zhang is co-editor of book on advances in heart bioengineering
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Twenty years ago, clinicians first attempted to regenerate a failing human heart by injecting muscle myoblasts into...
Blood test may indicate higher risk pregnancies in patients with COVID-19
A small preliminary study from Northwestern Medicine has shown that a blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis...
Performance of elite show-jumping horses reveals that faults are predictable, and are most likely at jumps with water and fences in combination
Performance of elite show-jumping horses reveals that faults are predictable, and are most likely at jumps with water and fences...
Ancient greenhouse warming informs potential future climate change scenarios
56 million years ago a period of abrupt global warming known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), was caused by...
A potential new target for cancer immunotherapies
Tumors can use an enzyme called ART1 to thwart antitumor immune cells, making the enzyme a promising new target for...
3D matrix ultrasound accurately identifies cardiovascular injury in healthy individuals
A new imaging technique for real 3D vascular ultrasound could become a key tool in strategies aimed at preventing cardiovascular...
ISU scientists receive federal grant to advance research on blood stem cells
AMES, Iowa – The ability to generate a patient’s blood cells in order to treat blood diseases has eluded scientists...
Bacteria in the bile duct may provide a new clue for treating liver disease
Philadelphia, March 16, 2022 -- Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a disease in which inflammation causes scars in the bile...
Burst of rapid cell motion in 3D tumour model
Biological processes such as wound healing and cancer cell invasion rely on the collective and coordinated motion of living cells....
Computer simulation brings us closer to schools of fishlike underwater research drones
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from ESPCI Paris, Chiba University, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have used a 3D...
Discovery of an immune escape mechanism promoting Listeria infection of the central nervous system
Some "hypervirulent" strains of Listeria monocytogenes have a greater capacity to infect the central nervous system. Scientists from the Institut...
For accuracy, brain studies of complex behavior require thousands of people
As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to promise a way for...
Getting bacteria and yeast to talk to each other, thanks to a ‘nanotranslator’
Cells communicate with one another in the language of chemistry, but those from different kingdoms, such as bacteria and yeast,...
Enhancing drug development process with more precise animal models
Verifying the efficacy and safety of a drug, clinical trials are a hurdle that must be cleared before a new...
KANPHOS: Newly developed database for kinase-associated protein phosphorylation eases neural signaling research
Signal transduction, or cellular communication involving chemical and physical signals transmitted by signal molecules in the extracellular and intracellular environments,...
The nature of the experiment largely determines its result
Neuroscientists reexamine hundreds of contradictory experiments on the connection between neural activity and consciousnessCredit: Tel Aviv University Neuroscientists reexamine hundreds...
Bacterial enzyme makes new type of biodegradable polymer
Strings of sugars called polysaccharides are the most abundant biopolymers on Earth. Because of their versatile and environmentally friendly properties,...
A CNIC study highlights the risks of mitochondrial therapeutic interventions
Research carried out at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has demonstrated that mixing mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) of different...
What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before
New research led by palaeobiologists at the University of Leicester has identified startling similarities between the mouths of grasshoppers and...
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