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Common weed may be super plant that holds key to drought-resistant crops
5.8.2022 | Press monitoring
Yale scientists describe how Portulaca oleracea, commonly known as purslane, integrates two distinct metabolic pathways to create a novel type of photosynthesis that enables the weed to endure drought while remaining highly productive. "This is a very rare combination of traits and has created a kind of 'super plant' – one that could be...
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Inspired by nature, artificial microtubules can work against a current to transport tiny cargoes
3.8.2022 | Press monitoring
Like a microscopic bucket brigade, an artificial microtubule can rapidly transport tiny particles along magnetic stepping stones, delivering them to a precise location even when operating against a strong current. The technology, developed by a team from the University of Pennsylvania and ETH Zürich, may one day facilitate the delivery of targeted...
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Yales cellular spray paint highlights dark matter of the genome
1.8.2022 | Press monitoring
While science continues to identify and unravel the role of the thousands of proteins in the human body, many of them are too small to be picked up with current techniques. These ghost microproteins live in what scientists refer to as the "dark matter" of our genome and may play important roles in the progression of disease. A team at Yale...
Gene Therapy Delivered via High-Capacity Baculovirus
29.7.2022 | Press monitoring
Some of the newest and most exciting gene therapy technologies share a problem: They’re too bulky. They rely on multiple functional DNA and protein elements that must reach target cells all at the same time, even though they have trouble fitting into the usual delivery vehicles, which include vector systems based on lentiviruses, adenoviruses, and...
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Viruses help combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria
27.7.2022 | Press monitoring
More and more bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics. Bacteriophages are one alternative in the fight against bacteria. These viruses attack very particular bacteria in a highly specific way. Now a Munich research team has developed a new way to produce bacteriophages efficiently and without risk. The cornerstone of the new technology,...
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Waste frog skin could be used to help heal chronic wounds
25.7.2022 | Press monitoring
Chronic diabetic skin ulcers are notoriously slow to heal, but an otherwise-wasted material may soon help change that. Scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a new regenerative wound dressing, and it's made from frog skin. Although frog meat is considered a delicacy, oddity or both in many parts of the...
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Crop protection: Biohacking against fungal attacks
22.7.2022 | Press monitoring
Harmful fungi cause enormous agricultural losses. Conventional techniques for combating them involve the use of poisonous fungicides. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), working with partners from Germany, France, and Switzerland on the DialogProTec project, have developed environmentally safe alternatives that trick the...
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Nanomembrane system could help diagnose diseases by isolating biomarkers in tears
20.7.2022 | Press monitoring
Going to the doctor might make you want to cry, and according to a new study, doctors could someday put those tears to good use. In ACS Nano, researchers report a nanomembrane system that harvests and purifies tiny blobs called exosomes from tears, allowing researchers to quickly analyze them for disease biomarkers. Dubbed iTEARS, the platform...
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Engineers Have Grown a Major Piece of The Human Heart in Miniature, And It Beats
18.7.2022 | Press monitoring
Though research into treatments for cardiovascular disease has come a long way in recent decades, heart problems still claim the lives of nearly 18 million people around the world each year. A tiny working model of a human ventricle could open fresh new ground in developing novel drugs and therapies, and for studying the development of...
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Biohybrid material could replace and regrow damaged cartilage
15.7.2022 | Press monitoring
When cartilage in joints such as the knees gets damaged, it is very slow to heal – if it ever does at all. An experimental new biohybrid material could one day replace it, however, and may even promote the growth of new natural cartilage. One of the challenges in designing artificial cartilage lies in the fact that like its natural counterpart,...
