Two-organ chip to answer fatty liver questions
A tiny platform empowers scientists to examine how gut and liver cells interact in health and disease.
Apr 7th, 2023
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A tiny platform empowers scientists to examine how gut and liver cells interact in health and disease.
Apr 7th, 2023
Read moreResearchers have developed an ingenious device, using layers of hydrogels in a cube-like structure, that allows researchers to construct complex 3D organoids without using elaborate techniques.
Apr 7th, 2023
Read moreA new research project aims to develop scientific principles and biomaterials for the standardized production of valid tissue models.
Apr 4th, 2023
Read moreResearchers developed hydrogel platform for delivering monoclonal antibodies (MABs) through subcutaneous injection.
Apr 3rd, 2023
Read moreThis work is a milestone in the mesoscopic simulation of DNA. It presents a systematic and comprehensive study of DNA movement correlations and a new method to capture them.
Mar 31st, 2023
Read moreTurning genes on and off as easily and predictably as flicking a switch could be a powerful tool in medicine and biotech. A type of technology called a riboswitch might be the key.
Mar 30th, 2023
Read moreScientists combined substances extracted from fruit residues and egg white to package nanoparticles of anthocyanin, a plant pigment with antioxidant action.
Mar 29th, 2023
Read moreIn an ongoing discovery program, a chemical-creation platform is being unearthed - based on cubic molecules - that could help breathe new life into tired drugs and agrochemicals.
Mar 29th, 2023
Read moreAssessing how energy-generating synthetic organelles could sustain artificial cells.
Mar 28th, 2023
Read moreFake seeds can cost farmers more than two-thirds of expected crop yields and threaten food security. Trackable silk labels could help.
Mar 23rd, 2023
Read moreDiffraction gratings made from seafood waste could enable disposable spectrometers that don't harm the environment.
Mar 22nd, 2023
Read moreScientists investigated the behavior of enzymatic droplets and predicted that they can show directed self-propulsion in the cell.
Mar 22nd, 2023
Read moreUsing AI, synthesized random heteropolymers mimic proteins in blood serum, cell's cytosol.
Mar 20th, 2023
Read moreUsing previously developed theoretical and mathematical models, researchers used information on the speed of the process of DNA unzipping through a nanopore to accurately retrieve the thermodynamics of double helix formation and breaking.
Mar 17th, 2023
Read moreResearchers have successfully restored the vision of mice with retinitis pigmentosa, one of the major causes of blindness in humans. The study uses a new, highly versatile form of CRISPR-based genome editing with the potential to correct a wide variety of disease-causing genetic mutations.
Mar 17th, 2023
Read moreCertain single-celled microorganisms can dissolve pyrite in the absence of oxygen. These microorganisms mine iron and sulfur from the pyrite to build biocatalysts needed for growth.
Mar 17th, 2023
Read moreUsing this approach, researchers hope to deliver therapeutic RNA molecules selectively to cancer cells or other target cells.
Mar 16th, 2023
Read moreIn a step forward for genetic engineering and synthetic biology, researchers have modified a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria to be immune to natural viral infections while also minimizing the potential for the bacteria or their modified genes to escape into the wild.
Mar 15th, 2023
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