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£10m Leverhulme Centre for the Holobiont aims to restore habitats and rescue endangered species

The £10m Leverhulme Centre for the Holobiont aims to create a green revolution in agriculture, rescue threatened species, and restore habitats.

10 Jan 2022

NYBC discovers novel small-molecule pancoronavirus fusion inhibitors

New York Blood Center has published a study that reports the discovery of highly potent small molecules with the ability to inhibit COVID-19 in infected individuals.

9 Jan 2022

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron a product of offensive evolution with compromised antigenicity

Researchers investigate the relationship between the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and immune system based on self/nonself short constituent sequences.

9 Jan 2022

Dual-receptors help widespread dissemination of SARS-CoV-2

Researchers demonstrate the role of integrins in the establishment of the SARS-CoV-2 infection.

9 Jan 2022

Slight pH adjustment may turn a metabolic inhibiting drug into promising COVID-19 treatment

Mechanical engineering and materials science professor David Needham has shown that a slight increase in solution pH might be all it takes to turn a metabolic inhibiting drug, traditionally used to treat gut parasites, into a promising prophylactic/preventative nasal spray and early treatment throat spray for COVID-19.

7 Jan 2022

New evidence supports the link between growth-induced respiratory stress and fish reproduction

A consistent metabolic ratio found across 133 Chinese marine and freshwater fish species provides new evidence in support of the idea that fish become sexually active – and spawn for the first time – in response to growth-induced respiratory stress.

7 Jan 2022

Scientists discover antibody that inhibits a broad range of sarbecoviruses

Scientists have discovered an antibody that may lead to more effective treatments against a wide range of sarbecoviruses, the family of viruses that includes the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and their variants.

7 Jan 2022

Small cluster of neurons in the brain stem found to coordinate vocalization with breathing

The vocal sounds of humans - laughing, crying, and the babbling of babies - have the same rhythmic quality as the sounds made by many mammals, songbirds, and even some species of fish.

7 Jan 2022

Integrating Microplate Evaporators with Liquid Handling Robots

The Ultravap® Mistral family of microplate evaporators from Porvair Sciences are used in labs worldwide to remove the traditional laboratory ‘bottleneck’ of solvent evaporation from 12- to 384-well microplates and vials up to 15cm tall.

From Porvair Sciences Limited 7 Jan 2022

Study reveals the diverse ways that amphibians care for their young

Research led by Queen’s University Belfast has revealed the diverse ways that amphibians care for their young determine how many eggs they lay.

7 Jan 2022

New research may help better understand the causes of human diseases

New University of Gloucestershire research aims to increase our understanding of the causes of human diseases, potentially leading to the design of better treatments in the future.

7 Jan 2022

Bacterial biofilms use a developmental patterning mechanism seen in plants and animals

Over the past several years, research from University of California San Diego biologist Gürol Süel's laboratory has uncovered a series of remarkable features exhibited by clusters of bacteria that live together in communities known as biofilms.

7 Jan 2022

Grouping tumors by 'immune archetypes' points the way to personalized immunotherapies

The UCSF researchers, led by first co-authors Alexis Combes, PhD, and Bushra Samad, MS, and senior author, Max Krummel, PhD, obtained tumor specimens from 78 UCSF clinicians, and surveyed 364 tumors biopsies from patients and categorized them into groups based on their immune microenvironment.

7 Jan 2022

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron belongs to new antigenic cluster compared to all other VOCs

Researchers investigate SARS-CoV-2 antigenic drift by evaluating the neutralizing activity of sera from patients infected with all five SARS-CoV-2 VOCs.

6 Jan 2022

Research uncovers how a mouse brain understands sensory information

The brain is the most complex organ in our body – constantly absorbing and interpreting our surroundings, and guiding our movement, thoughts, behaviors and emotions.

6 Jan 2022

Researchers explore consequences of eroding norms over release of self-spreading viruses

Decades of research by generations of virologists have generally established that the use laboratory-modified self-spreading viruses is too unpredictable to be applied safely outside of contained facilities.

6 Jan 2022

New approach with mRNA preparation reprograms T cells to attack heart fibroblasts

An experimental immunotherapy can temporarily reprogram patients' immune cells to attack a specific target via only a single injection of messenger RNA (mRNA), similar to the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

6 Jan 2022

Researchers study immune cell invasion process in living fruit fly embryos

To fight infections and heal injuries, immune cells need to enter tissue. They also need to invade tumors to fight them from within.

6 Jan 2022

Study reinforces the link between microglia and some cases of brain disease

Certain subtle differences in DNA sequences are known to raise the chances a person may develop Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease.

6 Jan 2022

Researchers explore novel strategy to improve the reprogramming efficiency of human fibroblasts

Not too long ago the idea of taking, for instance a skin cell and transforming it into a muscle cell was unthinkable. About 10 years ago, however, revolutionary research showed that it is indeed possible to reprogram differentiated adult cells into other types fully capable of conducting new functions.

6 Jan 2022

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£10m Leverhulme Centre for the Holobiont aims to restore habitats and rescue endangered species

NYBC discovers novel small-molecule pancoronavirus fusion inhibitors

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron a product of offensive evolution with compromised antigenicity

Dual-receptors help widespread dissemination of SARS-CoV-2

Slight pH adjustment may turn a metabolic inhibiting drug into promising COVID-19 treatment

New evidence supports the link between growth-induced respiratory stress and fish reproduction

Scientists discover antibody that inhibits a broad range of sarbecoviruses

Small cluster of neurons in the brain stem found to coordinate vocalization with breathing

Integrating Microplate Evaporators with Liquid Handling Robots

Study reveals the diverse ways that amphibians care for their young

New research may help better understand the causes of human diseases

Bacterial biofilms use a developmental patterning mechanism seen in plants and animals

Grouping tumors by 'immune archetypes' points the way to personalized immunotherapies

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron belongs to new antigenic cluster compared to all other VOCs

Research uncovers how a mouse brain understands sensory information

Researchers explore consequences of eroding norms over release of self-spreading viruses

New approach with mRNA preparation reprograms T cells to attack heart fibroblasts

Researchers study immune cell invasion process in living fruit fly embryos

Study reinforces the link between microglia and some cases of brain disease

Researchers explore novel strategy to improve the reprogramming efficiency of human fibroblasts

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