Researchers at Emory Vaccine Center have demonstrated that exhaustion is driven by how the immune system detects infecting viruses. To recognize the presence…
For modern implants and the growth of artificial tissue and organs, it is important to generate materials with characteristics that closely emulate nature.However, the tissue in our bodies has a combination of traits that are very hard to recreate in synthetic materials: It is both soft and very tough. A team of Australian and Korean researchers led by Geoffrey M. Spinks and Seon Jeong Kim has now developed a novel, highly porous, sponge-like material whose mechanical properties closely resemble those of biological soft tissues. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, it consists of a robust network of DNA strands and carbon nanotubes. …
The findings could help predict whether breast tumors will metastasize and also reveal potential drug targets for preventing metastasis. The study will appear…
Though theoretical, the work points to the critical importance of what has been a poorly appreciated aspect of the interaction between a virus and those…
Inside, blood vessels are lined with a single layer of cells. On their surface, these cells bear specific adhesive proteins by means of which they stick close…
Through gene modification the plants have acquired the capacity to produce a protein that is part of the virus, and the project has taken a giant step forward…
With the costs of genome sequencing rapidly decreasing, and with the infrastructure now developed for almost anyone with access to a computer to cheaply store,…
Now, a large, international collaboration between Arizona State University, the University of California San Diego and the University of British Columbia, has…
A consequence of the different cancers of the hepatobiliary system is blocked bile ducts. However, artificial catheters known as “stents” can remediate this…
Vascular smooth muscle cells undergo a process in diseases such as atherosclerosis or normal tissue damage caused by balloon angioplasty where they transition…
They found a decreased ability of blood vessels to relax resulted from increased activity of a natural mechanism for altering protein form and function, says…
At the moment, no laundering process on the market has been proven and certified as virucidal because methods for in situ testing under actual working…
The study, appearing in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, is the first to show that a person’s ability to solve a problem can be…
Drosophila is one of the best studied model organisms in biology and has greatly contributed to our understanding of genetics, development, physiology, and…
Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that defects in…
Improving the environment in which rats are reared can significantly strengthen the physiological process of wound healing, according to a report in the…
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