New clinical study aims to prevent type 1 diabetes in children
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Discovery of a third T cell lineage
Credit: (c) Rob Miller, University of New Mexico The immune systems of all vertebrates contain specialized cells, called T cells, that play a fundamental role...
Incurable Leigh Syndrome: German scientists create first human model for rare disease
Neuronal defects may be caused by an energy deficit in neural precursorsCredit: Copyright: Dr. Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf Leigh syndrome is the most severe mitochondrial disease in...
Slc20a1b is essential for hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell expansion in zebrafish
Credit: ©Science China Press Hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) include hematopoietic stem cells and several lineage-biased hematopoietic progenitor cells, which can provide all blood cell types...
Surgery is a viable treatment for pancreatic cancer patients especially after chemotherapy
Patients with stage II pancreatic cancer who receive chemotherapy followed by resection live nearly twice as long as patients who receive only chemotherapyCredit: Journal of...
3D-printed artificial lung model
Credit: POSTECH The warmer temperature and blooming flowers signal the arrival of spring. However, worries about respiratory diseases are also on the rise due to...
Scent of a species
A reversal in sensory processing accompanies ongoing ecological divergence and speciation in Rhagoletis pomonellaCredit: Shoot for Science: Deepak Kakara, Dinesh Yadav, Sukanya Olkar, and Parijat...
High-loading atomically dispersed Ir/MoC catalyst for hydrogenation reaction
Credit: ©Science China Press Atomically dispersed catalysts have received extensive research attention, because they exhibit excellent activity and unique selectivity for many important catalytic reactions....
Robust cell junctions are critical for maintaining stem cell function
Mechanical instability of adherens junctions overrides intrinsic quiescence of hair follicle stem cellsCredit: Avinanda Banerjee The skin is the largest organ in the human body,...
Pressure sensor with high sensitivity and linear response based on soft micropillared electrodes
Credit: ©Science China Press In recent years, with the rapid development of flexible electronic skins, high-performance flexible tactile sensors have received more attention and have...
The origin and uniqueness of Basque genetics revealed
A new study reveals that the genetic uniqueness of the Basque population is not due to its external origin in respect of other Iberian populations,...
Shrub willow as a bioenergy crop
Credit: Armen Kemanian Renewable energy demand and consumption is at an all-time high in the United States. Shrub willow - a quick-growing woody crop -...
Dogs (not) gone wild: DNA tests show most ‘wild dogs’ in Australia are pure dingoes
It's time to take dingoes out of the doghouseCredit: Chontelle Burns / Nouveau Rise Photography. Almost all wild canines in Australia are genetically more than...
U-M Depression Center to be named for Eisenberg family, in recognition of $30M in giving
Nation's first center focused on depression and bipolar illnesses enters 20th year with transformational gift and enhanced capacity for scientific advances to improve knowledge and...
Leap forward’ in risk management of rectal cancer
Images from a probe, combined with deep learning, better differentiated residual cancerous tissue from recovered healthy tissue after chemoradiation treatmentCredit: (Image courtesy of Zhu lab)...