Each cell in the average human body contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, with four telomeres on each pair. Telomeres cover the end of the chromosome, protecting it from deterioration or fusion with adjacent chromosomes, much ...
Sep 7, 2017
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Researchers who developed and tested a revolutionary laboratory technique that allows for the endless growth of normal and diseased cells in a laboratory are publicly sharing how the technique works.
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In 2001, researchers developed a formula, or algorithm, that predicts whether a specific change in a gene sequence can result in harmful effects. While useful, the algorithm was slow; the computations underpinning these predictions ...
May 6, 2016
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Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a highly sensitive biosensor based on a differential immuno-capture technology that can detect sub-populations of white blood cells. As part of ...
Mar 11, 2016
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A University of Wyoming faculty member is part of a research team that created a method, using laser, to better decode complex neural circuits in the brain—a process that eventually may help unlock the mysteries of epilepsy, ...
Mar 18, 2015
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Last year Karl Deisseroth, a Stanford professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, announced a new way of peering into a brain – removed from the body – that provided spectacular fly-through ...
Jun 19, 2014
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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have developed two rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19 that are nearly as accurate as the gold-standard test currently used in laboratories. Unlike the ...
Jun 15, 2021
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The loss of oligodendrocytes (OLs), highly specialized cells of the brain that produce myelin, is a frequent condition in patients suffering neurodegenerative diseases. Myelin is an essential structure that insulates nerve ...
Nov 12, 2020
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How can scientists measure and define the performance of neural electrodes if there are no uniform standards? Freiburg microsystems engineer Dr. Maria Asplund together with Dr. Christian Böhler and Prof. Dr. Thomas Stieglitz, ...
Oct 28, 2020
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As genetic sequences of SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the novel pneumonia (COVID-19), are similar to those of the 2003 SARS virus, SARS-CoV, knowledge and data of SARS-CoV may be useful for finding ways to combat COVID-19. Such ...
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