Genome-editing tool TALEN outperforms CRISPR-Cas9 in tightly packed DNA
Credit: Composite photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers used single-molecule imaging to compare the genome-editing tools CRISPR-Cas9 ...
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Secrets of traumatic stress hidden in the brain are exposed
Effects of an allostatic closed-loop neurotechnology (HIRREM) on brain functional connectivity laterality in military-relatedtraumatic stressCredit: © Cereset and Wake Forrest ...
Making wheat and peanuts less allergenic
Credit: Credit: Jonathan Windham The United States Department of Agriculture identifies a group of "big eight" foods that causes 90% ...
New NIH grant supports single molecule study of protein key to Alzheimer ‘s disease
Effort intensifies to identify novel mechanisms and targets for future Alzheimer's therapeuticsCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- A new ...
Valentina Greco receives the 2021 ISSCR Momentum Award
Credit: Yale School of Medicine Skokie, IL-- The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) will present this year's ISSCR ...
Robin Lovell-Badge receives the 2021 ISSCR Public Service Award
Credit: Robin Lovell-Badge Skokie, IL-- The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is honoring Robin Lovell-Badge PhD, FRS, The ...
Stuart H. Orkin receives the 2021 ISSCR Tobias Lecture Award
Credit: ISSCR Skokie, IL-- The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) awards the 2021 Tobias Lecture Award to Stuart ...
Janet Rossant receives the 2021 ISSCR Achievement Award
Credit: Gairdner Foundation Skokie, IL--The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) will award its 2021 Achievement Award to Janet ...
Madeline Lancaster receives 2021 ISSCR Dr. Susan Lim Award for Outstanding Young Investigator
Credit: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Skokie, IL--The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) will award the Dr. Susan ...
A research team from Denmark discovers new control mechanism in the innate immune system
Credit: Rasmus Kjeldsen Jensen, Aarhus University Although the protein ITIH4 is found in large amounts in the blood, its function ...
3-D printed Biomesh minimizes hernia repair complications
Credit: Drs. C. Shin/G. Acharya/Baylor College of Medicine. Hernias are one of the most common soft tissue injuries. Hernias form ...
Identification of Oligo-DNA that promotes skeletal muscle differentiation
Credit: Copyright © 2021 Shinji, Umezawa, Nihashi, Nakamura, Shimosato and Takaya. Skeletal muscle is the largest tissue in the human ...
Titanium oxide nanotubes facilitate low-cost laser-assisted photoporation
Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) 2015 TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Overview: A research team at the Department of Mechanical ...
Regulating the ribosomal RNA production line
Cryo-electron microscopy study allows researchers to visualize structural changes in an E. coli enzyme synthesizing ribosomal RNA that shift it ...
No more needles for diagnostic tests?
Nearly pain-free microneedle patch can test for antibodies and more in the fluid between cellsCredit: Image: Sisi Cao Blood draws ...
New variety of paintbrush lily developed by a novel plant tissue culture technique
Credit: Arisa Nakano, Masahiro Mii, Yoichiro Hoshino Scientists at Hokkaido University and Chiba University have developed simultaneous triploid and hexaploid ...
Adaptive optics with cascading corrective elements
A cascaded dual deformable phase plate wavefront modulator enables direct AO integration with existing microscopes--doubling the aberration correction range and ...
The physics behind tumor growth
New theory uses physics to predict the growth stages of cancerous tumorsCredit: Bean, et al. Mol. Cell, 2006. DOI: 10.1016/j. ...
A critical review of graphene quantum dots and their application in biosensors
Credit: Authors In a paper published in NANO, researchers from Hubei, China discuss the top-down and bottom-up strategies for the ...
Mechanism that produces rapid acceleration in clicking beetles identified
Credit: Virginia Tech Did you know that fleas, ants, and click beetles are capable of blazingly fast accelerations, with some ...
