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Improving Genome Editing With Drugs
One of the most exciting scientific advances made in recent years is CRISPR—the ability to precisely edit the genome of...
Forever Young: Meditation might slow the age-related loss of gray matter in the brain
New brain research findings suggest long-term meditation may lead to less age-related gray matter atrophy in the human brain. Since...
Scientists reprogram plants for drought tolerance
Crops and other plants are constantly faced with adverse environmental conditions, such as rising temperatures (2014 was the warmest year...
An ‘ambulance’ for the brain
The brain is protected by a barrier of cells that tightly regulates the transport of substances into this organ in...
Compound found in grapes, red wine may help prevent memory loss
A compound found in common foods such as red grapes and peanuts may help prevent age-related decline in memory, according...
Nerve cells interact like friends on Facebook
Neurons in the brain are wired like a social network, report researchers from Biozentrum, University of Basel. Each nerve cell...
Smartphone accessory for rapid diagnosis of HIV
A team of researchers, led by Samuel K. Sia, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed a...
New ‘reset’ button discovered for circadian clock
The discovery of a new “reset” button for the brain’s master biological clock could eventually lead to new treatments for...
Reprogram tumor’s cells to attack itself
Inserting a specific strain of bacteria into the microenvironment of aggressive ovarian cancer transforms the behavior of tumor cells from...
Scientists discover viral ‘Enigma machine’
Researchers have cracked a code that governs infections by a major group of viruses including the common cold and polio....
Artificially intelligent robot scientist ‘Eve’ could boost search for new drugs
Eve, an artificially-intelligent 'robot scientist' could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society...
Electronic Skin Enables Magnetic ‘Sixth Sense’
Magnetoception is a sense which allows bacteria, insects and even vertebrates like birds and sharks to detect magnetic fields for...
Research team uncovers genetic trigger for immune response
The thousands of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecules present in each cell are known primarily for their role converting food and...
Britain is a step closer to creating babies with DNA from 3 people
MPs in Britain have voted for the use of controversial techniques to create babies from the DNA of three people....
Artificial Blood Vessels
By combining micro-imprinting and electro-spinning techniques, researchers at Shanghai University’s Rapid Manufacturing Engineering Center have developed a vascular graft composed...
Skin based immunity secrets revealed
A team of international scientists has discovered a new mechanism by which immune cells in the skin function act as...
The unknotted strand of life
No one had checked before, but RNA, the nucleic acid involved in many cell functions including protein synthesis, appears to...
First results from Ebola vaccine trial
The first results from a trial of a candidate Ebola vaccine at Oxford University suggest the vaccine has an acceptable...
Mini synthetic organism instead of test animals
In medical research, animal-based experiments have thus far been a necessary evil. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a highly promising alternative,...
DNA clock helps to get measure of people’s lifespans
Scientists have identified a biological clock that provides vital clues about how long a person is likely to live. Researchers...