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Deep Learning and 3D Tech Enhance Drug Development Insights

Now, Purdue University researchers have designed a novel approach to use deep learning to better understand how proteins interact in the body – paving the way…

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Unveiling Cardiac Thin Filaments: New Insights from CryoEM

Researchers at Osaka University used electron cryomicroscopy (CryoEM) to image essential cardiac muscle components, known as thin filaments, with unprecedented…

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Team's fabricated corneal tissue allows closer look at how eyes heal

Cells called corneal keratocytes are innately programmed to come to the rescue if the eye is injured. This natural healing process sometimes fails, however,…

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Molecular Switch Uncovers New Insights Into Stomach Diseases

A research team from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has now revealed a new mechanism which controls the causes of infection with H….

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Wearable AC: Cooling Soldiers on the Battlefield

One day, soldiers could cool down on the military battlefield — preventing heat stroke or exhaustion — by using “wearable air conditioning,” an on-skin…

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Neural Circuit Changes in Adolescence Enhance Self-Control

The human brain is organized into circuits that develop from childhood through adulthood to support executive function–critical behaviors like self-control,…

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Intravenous TB Vaccine Boosts Potency, Study Reveals

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) discovered that…

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New Therapeutic Target Discovered for Colorectal Cancer

Around 80% of colorectal cancers are associated with mutations in a gene called APC that result in elevated levels of the βcatenin protein. This increase in…

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Proton Therapy Reduces Cancer Treatment Side Effects Significantly

Proton therapy leads to significantly lower risk of side effects severe enough to lead to unplanned hospitalizations for cancer patients when compared with…

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Discovering Sodium Channels: The Heartbeat’s Atomic Trigger

Atomic-level studies of the architecture of tiny sodium channel proteins, critical to generating electrical signals that start off each beat of the heart, are…

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New Study Links IL-36y Protein to Bacterial Vaginosis

Women with bacterial vaginosis exhibit elevated levels of the pro-inflammatory protein, IL-36y, according to a new collaborative study led by the University of…

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Safer Viruses Enhance Vaccine Research and Diagnosis

Researchers from UQ and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute have exploited the benign characteristics of the Binjari virus – inert to humans – to produce…

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Illinois Team Unveils First In-Vitro 3D Neural Tissue Model

The first author, Gelson Pagan-Diaz-Diaz, likens the produced tissue to a computer processing unit, which provided the basic principle to today's…

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New Drug BTZ-043 Targets Tuberculosis in Patient Trials

BTZ-043 was discovered at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz-HKI) in Jena. Since 2014,…

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Nanoparticles Illuminate Solutions for Cardiovascular Issues

Heart disease and stroke are the world's two most deadly diseases, causing over 15 million deaths in 2016 according to the World Health Organization. A key…

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Understanding the Dentate Gyrus: Memory’s Critical Connection

The dentate gyrus is the “input point” for the hippocampus part of the brain. It transmits information from the short term memory to the long term. It consists…

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