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Recipe to decontaminate disposable facemasks

Here's the recipe to decontaminate a disposable facemask: Heat it at 160 degrees Fahrenheit in an oven for five minutes. You can use your own oven.

12 Nov 2021

New findings about naturally acquired immunity may help improve existing malaria vaccines

When you have become immune to malaria after having contracted the disease, it seems that the body uses a more efficient protection than if you have been vaccinated against the deadly disease.

12 Nov 2021

Genetically engineered bacteria can monitor health from within

That feeling in your gut? Well, it's in your head, but some of it does truly start in the gastrointestinal tract.

12 Nov 2021

Higher order protein catenation leads to the development of artificial antibodies

Chemical topology is a unique dimension for protein engineering. Over the past few years, the discovery of topological nontrivial proteins in nature has already revealed their many potential functional benefits, such as enhanced thermal/mechanical/chemical stability.

12 Nov 2021

Researchers develop a rapid, non-invasive exhaled breath screening system for COVID-19

At present, the COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing in many parts of the world, causing severe socio-economic problems.

12 Nov 2021

Advanced technique reveals the ultrastructure of huntingtin inclusion bodies

Huntington's disease is a progressively debilitating brain disease that causes uncontrolled movements, psychological problems, and loss of cognition.

12 Nov 2021

GPR126 gene may play an essential role in placental development, study reveals

Scientists working with an experimental mouse model at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares have identified the essential role of the gene GPR126 in the development of the placenta during pregnancy.

12 Nov 2021

Sphere Fluidics and ClexBio giving away CYTRIX hydrogel kits

Celebrated every 10th November, World Science Day for Peace and Development highlights the significance of science in society and aims to engage the public in scientific issues.

From Sphere Bio 12 Nov 2021

INTEGRA’s VOYAGER helps HIV researchers get more results in significantly less time

INTEGRA’s VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette is supporting crucial experimental work in longitudinal HIV studies.

From INTEGRA Biosciences 12 Nov 2021

New study challenges the popular belief that gut microbiome drives autism

A new Australian collaborative Autism CRC study, led by Mater Research and The University of Queensland, has challenged the growing popular belief that the gut microbiome drives autism.

12 Nov 2021

Researchers identify gene expression involved in cancer progression and chemotherapy resistance

Even within a single patient with cancer, there is a vast diversity of individual tumor cells, which display distinct behaviors related to growth, metastasis, and responses to chemotherapy.

11 Nov 2021

Study highlights the need for caution while using CRISPR-based gene therapies

A comprehensive study - conducted by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and other groups - has shown that gene editing, specifically gene knockout (KO), with CRISPR -Cas9 can favor cells with mutated forms of genes linked to cancer.

11 Nov 2021

New study offers genetic insight into why we look the way we do

Which genes control the defining features that make us look as we do? And how do they make it happen?

11 Nov 2021

Study reveals surprising new information about how the brain is affected by salt consumption

A first-of-its-kind study led by researchers at Georgia State reveals surprising new information about the relationship between neuron activity and blood flow deep in the brain, as well as how the brain is affected by salt consumption.

11 Nov 2021

New target for drug development could fill a major gap in depression treatment

Vanderbilt researchers found that ketamine's rapid antidepressant action is due to specific synaptic effects.

10 Nov 2021

New discovery could lead to the creation of a pan-coronaviruses vaccine

Next generation vaccines for Covid-19 should aim to induce an immune response against 'replication proteins', essential for the very earliest stages of the viral cycle, concludes new research carried out by UCL scientists.

10 Nov 2021

Newly discovered RNA molecule protects mice from emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that an RNA molecule that stimulates the body's early antiviral defense system can protect mice from a range of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.

10 Nov 2021

UArizona researchers get closer to developing a safe, effective non-opioid pain reliever

Researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences are closer to developing a safe and effective non-opioid pain reliever after a study showed that a new compound they created reduces the sensation of pain by regulating a biological channel linked to pain.

10 Nov 2021

Whole senome sequencing can effectively secure a diagnosis for people with rare diseases

A world-first scientific study, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, has shown that whole genome sequencing can uncover new diagnoses for people across the broadest range of rare diseases investigated to date and could deliver enormous benefits across the NHS.

10 Nov 2021

Inhibiting epigenetic modification could be key to reducing cancer metastasis

Fatty acid uptake produces an epigenetic modification that is required for cancer metastasis, according to a study published in Nature.

10 Nov 2021

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Recipe to decontaminate disposable facemasks

New findings about naturally acquired immunity may help improve existing malaria vaccines

Genetically engineered bacteria can monitor health from within

Higher order protein catenation leads to the development of artificial antibodies

Researchers develop a rapid, non-invasive exhaled breath screening system for COVID-19

Advanced technique reveals the ultrastructure of huntingtin inclusion bodies

GPR126 gene may play an essential role in placental development, study reveals

Sphere Fluidics and ClexBio giving away CYTRIX hydrogel kits

INTEGRA’s VOYAGER helps HIV researchers get more results in significantly less time

New study challenges the popular belief that gut microbiome drives autism

Researchers identify gene expression involved in cancer progression and chemotherapy resistance

Study highlights the need for caution while using CRISPR-based gene therapies

New study offers genetic insight into why we look the way we do

Study reveals surprising new information about how the brain is affected by salt consumption

New target for drug development could fill a major gap in depression treatment

New discovery could lead to the creation of a pan-coronaviruses vaccine

Newly discovered RNA molecule protects mice from emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

UArizona researchers get closer to developing a safe, effective non-opioid pain reliever

Whole senome sequencing can effectively secure a diagnosis for people with rare diseases

Inhibiting epigenetic modification could be key to reducing cancer metastasis

Evolving spectrophotometry for modern biopharma workflows

Scaling B-cell cloning workflows for antibody development

Fluidics in Modern Healthcare & Medical Device Innovation

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