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CUNY School of Medicine and TechnoVax announce COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough

The CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York and TechnoVax, Inc., a biotechnology developer of novel vaccines, announce a breakthrough in their collaborative effort to develop a vaccine for COVID-19.

19 Aug 2020

Study sheds light on 500-year old mystery about the human heart

Researchers have investigated the function of a complex mesh of muscle fibres that line the inner surface of the heart. The study, published in the journal Nature, sheds light on questions asked by Leonardo da Vinci 500 years ago, and shows how the shape of these muscles impacts heart performance and heart failure.

19 Aug 2020

Study investigates effects of migration/dispersal activities on morphology and reproduction of butterflies

Butterflies show several different types of movement. They can seasonally migrate long distances over hundreds of kilometres.

19 Aug 2020

Cyborg technology: Researchers take new step toward integrating electronics with the body

Although true "cyborgs" -; part human, part robotic beings -; are science fiction, researchers are taking steps toward integrating electronics with the body.

17 Aug 2020

ARDS may not be the primary lung iInjury in COVID-19

A new Italian study published on the preprint server medRxiv in August 2020 shows that this may not be an adequate explanation, since ARDS is a nonspecific diagnosis. Instead, they say, antemortem lung biopsy shows a “Covid pattern” of acute lung injury, which could guide the application of therapeutics.

16 Aug 2020

Research looks at convalescent plasma use in COVID-19 mouse model

A new study by researchers at the University of Iowa and published on the preprint server bioRxiv in August 2020 reports the utility of a mouse model that recapitulates several aspects of human COVID-19 and can reflect the antiviral efficacy of new drugs as well.

12 Aug 2020

Research unlocks key mechanism in the communication between brain cells during stroke

Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Ludmila Belayev, MD, LSU Health New Orleans Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Neurosurgery, has unlocked a key fundamental mechanism in the communication between brain cells when confronted with stroke.

6 Aug 2020

Study shows how amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's dissociate with infrared laser irradiation

The agglomeration of proteins into structures called amyloid plaques is a common feature of many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's.

4 Aug 2020

High-speed atomic force microscopy reveals diverse amyloid structures and dynamics

In the human body, proteins sometimes occur in fibrillar aggregates called amyloids. Although certain amyloids are known to have a biological function, amyloid formation is often associated with pathologies, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

3 Aug 2020

Sweet-taste perception changes from childhood to adulthood

Compared with adults, children and adolescents are less sensitive to the sweet taste and need 40% more sucrose in a solution for them to detect the taste of sugar, a new study found.

3 Aug 2020

Overweight, obesity linked with low semen quality parameters

Infertility affects between 10 and 15% of all couples of reproductive ages and can be caused by a wide variety of factors: genetic, physiological, environmental and nutritional.

27 Jul 2020

Exercise equipment in communal gyms have high levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Research presented at ASM Microbe Online found that 43% of Staphylococcus bacteria found on exercise equipment in university gyms were ampicillin-resistant, with 73% of those isolates being resistant to multiple additional drugs.

24 Jul 2020

New technology could speed up drug discovery to fight tuberculosis

A new technology that combines high throughput imaging and machine learning could speed discovery of drugs to fight tuberculosis, which for generations has killed more people worldwide than any other disease caused by a single agent-;4,000 people every day.

23 Jul 2020

Atomic force microscopy reveals nanoscale effects of beverages on tooth enamel

KAIST researchers used atomic force microscopy to quantitatively evaluate how acidic and sugary drinks affect human tooth enamel at the nanoscale level.

22 Jul 2020

Experimental therapy slows zika replication and prevents microcephaly in mice

An international group of researchers have discovered that inhibiting AHR (aryl hydrocarbon receptor), a protein with roles in regulating immunity, stem cell maintenance and cellular differentiation, enables the immune system to combat replication of zika virus in the organism far more effectively.

20 Jul 2020

HORIBA Medical launches digital blood cell morphology QC, training and evaluation tool

HORIBA UK Ltd, Medical announces that it has launched an affordable digital tool for online skill evaluation and training in cytology.

20 Jul 2020

Novel nanospectroscopy measures biomolecular changes induced by drugs in human cells

Synchrotron InfraRed Nanospectroscopy has been used for the first time to measure biomolecular changes induced by a drug (amiodarone) within human cells (macrophages) and localized at 100 nanometre scale, i.e. two orders of magnitude smaller than the IR wavelength used as probe.

17 Jul 2020

Researchers map non-coding, 'functional' genome in maize during early reproductive development

Growth and development of all organisms depends on coordinated regulation of gene expression in time and space, and this is largely controlled by non-coding sequences in the genome.

8 Jul 2020

Study of lysosomal function during mitosis reveals new biomarker for chromosomal instability

A team from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute and the University of Barcelona, in collaboration with a researcher from the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota, have described that lysosomes and autophagy processes are active during mitosis and are necessary for a correct cell division.

7 Jul 2020

Real-time tracking of protein filaments in the nuclear pore complex

In human cells, the nucleus is enclosed by a structure called the nuclear pore complex (NPC). It acts as a 'gatekeeper' controlling the transport of molecules between the nucleus and the surrounding cytoplasm (the protein-containing solution in the inside of a cell).

6 Jul 2020

Morphology News and Research

CUNY School of Medicine and TechnoVax announce COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough

Study sheds light on 500-year old mystery about the human heart

Study investigates effects of migration/dispersal activities on morphology and reproduction of butterflies

Cyborg technology: Researchers take new step toward integrating electronics with the body

ARDS may not be the primary lung iInjury in COVID-19

Research looks at convalescent plasma use in COVID-19 mouse model

Research unlocks key mechanism in the communication between brain cells during stroke

Study shows how amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's dissociate with infrared laser irradiation

High-speed atomic force microscopy reveals diverse amyloid structures and dynamics

Sweet-taste perception changes from childhood to adulthood

Overweight, obesity linked with low semen quality parameters

Exercise equipment in communal gyms have high levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

New technology could speed up drug discovery to fight tuberculosis

Atomic force microscopy reveals nanoscale effects of beverages on tooth enamel

Experimental therapy slows zika replication and prevents microcephaly in mice

HORIBA Medical launches digital blood cell morphology QC, training and evaluation tool

Novel nanospectroscopy measures biomolecular changes induced by drugs in human cells

Researchers map non-coding, 'functional' genome in maize during early reproductive development

Study of lysosomal function during mitosis reveals new biomarker for chromosomal instability

Real-time tracking of protein filaments in the nuclear pore complex

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