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New Technique Reveals How Cancer Cells Spread in Colon Tissue

Duke Cancer Institute researchers have observed how stem cell mutations quietly arise and spread throughout a widening field of the colon until they eventually…

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Uncovering Gene Expression’s Role in Stress Recovery

Hokkaido University researchers are beginning to uncover the functions of mysterious organelles in the nucleus and their relation to stress, 30 years after…

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Coldest Chemical Reaction Unveiled in Laser Chaos

The coldest chemical reaction in the known universe took place in what appears to be a chaotic mess of lasers. The appearance deceives: Deep within that…

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Sweet Potatoes Use Unique Odor to Warn Neighbors of Insects

Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are becoming more and more popular: Whether in soup or as fries, they increasingly compete with “regular” potatoes which,…

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AI-Driven AAV Capsid Creation for Gene Therapy Advances

Dyno Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering use of artificial intelligence in gene therapy, today announced a publication in the journal Science that…

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Harvard Researchers Advance AAV Capsid Engineering Techniques

Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) have become the go-to vehicle for delivering therapeutic gene cargo to target tissues for the recent wave of gene therapies…

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Unlocking Flowering: Understanding Plant Bloom Regulation

The regulation of flowering in plants is a highly complex process that is dependent on many internal and external factors. Flowering at the wrong time point…

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Exploring CRISPR Innovations in Space and Time

CRISPR/Cas9 technology is based on a modified version of a bacterial defense system against bacteriophages. One of the landmark discoveries for this technique…

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New Insights Into Early Songbird Development Unveiled

The ability to reproduce is a fundamental trait of all life. How reproduction has evolved and how it functions on a genetic level is therefore of great…

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Harvesting Fog: A New Source of Fresh Water in Deserts

Fog harvesting is a potential practical source of fresh water in foggy coastal deserts, and current solutions rely on meter scale nets/meshes. The mesh…

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Cerebral Organoid Model Uncovers Virus Defense Strategies

LACV is spread by mosquitoes and was first identified in the early 1960s. Most infections in people are mild but the virus sometimes–particularly in…

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KBRI Team Advances Dementia Research with Neurodegeneration Breakthrough

The Korea Brain Research Institute (KBRI, President Pann Ghill Suh) announced on November 12 that korean research team made up of Dr. Hyung-Jun Kim and Shinrye…

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New Insights Into Light Harvesting in Green Algae

A new study by Chinese and Japanese researchers has now characterized the light-harvesting system of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a common unicellular green…

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Scientists now know what DNA's chaperone looks like

A team of researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder has cracked the puzzle of the Facilitates Chromatin Transcription (FACT) protein structure. This…

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Decoding RNases: How Two Enzymes Manage RNA-DNA Hybrids

Two research teams led by Professors Brian Luke and Helle Ulrich at the Institute of Molecular Biology have deciphered how two enzymes, RNase H2 and RNase H1,…

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Animal-Like Embryos: Insights Into Early Evolution

The research – by an international research team led by scientists from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences…

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