Bone tissue homeostasis is maintained by a balance between bone formation by osteoblasts and bone resorption by osteoclasts. However, when osteoblast function declines with age, bone remodeling becomes out of balance, bone ...
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Nucleic acid therapeutics, which involve transferring exogenous genes inside target cells, are a promising clinical treatment option that can regulate gene expression at the transcriptional or post-transcriptional level.
May 5, 2022
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A community's sewage holds clues about its COVID-19 burden. Over the course of the pandemic, wastewater surveillance has become an increasingly popular way to try to understand local infection trends.
May 5, 2022
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Just one dose of a new nanoparticle-based COVID-19 vaccine was enough to produce an immune response in animals on track with vaccines currently in clinical use. And with minor changes, Northwestern University researchers ...
Mar 22, 2022
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Like most vaccines, RNA vaccines have to be injected, which can be an obstacle for people who fear needles. Now, a team of MIT researchers has developed a way to deliver RNA in a capsule that can be swallowed, which they ...
Jan 31, 2022
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A 26-year-old woman in China's capital Beijing who contracted the omicron strain of COVID-19 has drawn national attention on social media for her shopping trips.
Jan 17, 2022
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The northern Chinese city of Tianjin ordered a second round of COVID-19 testing of all 14 million residents Wednesday following the discovery of 97 cases of the omicron variant during initial screenings that began Sunday.
Jan 12, 2022
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In a viral infection, what's the signal from the virus that alerts the immune system to produce protective neutralizing antibodies?
Nov 18, 2021
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In early March 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was forcing Duane Juang and other graduate student researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to work remotely, the biomedical engineering Ph.D. student came across ...
Oct 26, 2021
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At present, the COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing in many parts of the world, causing severe socio-economic problems. Therefore, rapid screening for COVID-19 is becoming increasingly crucial. However, existing nucleic acid ...
Oct 25, 2021
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