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Nanoparticle chomps away plaques that cause heart attacks
7.2.2020 | Press monitoring
Michigan State University and Stanford University scientists have invented a nanoparticle that eats away – from the inside out – portions of plaques that cause heart attacks. Bryan Smith, associate professor of biomedical engineering at MSU, and a team of scientists created a "Trojan Horse" nanoparticle that can be directed to eat debris,...
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Kidney stem cells can be collected from urine to reduce transplants
5.2.2020 | Press monitoring
Transplants are often the last course of action available for people with kidney trouble, but donors can be hard to come by and the procedure is pretty invasive. Treating kidney disease with stem cells is an option, but obtaining those requires a biopsy. Now, researchers have isolated and studied kidney stem cells from urine samples, which could...
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First release of genetically engineered moth could herald new era of crop protection
3.2.2020 | Press monitoring
A newly published study reports a successful, first-ever open-field release of a self-limiting, genetically engineered diamondback moth, stating that it paves the way for an effective and sustainable approach to pest control. The diamondback moth, also known as Plutella xylostella, is highly damaging to brassica crops such as cabbage, broccoli,...
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First Ever Lab-Grown Heart Muscle Transplant Successfully Carried Out In Japan
31.1.2020 | Press monitoring
Scientists from Osaka University in Japan has successfully completed the world's first transplant of lab-grown heart muscle tissues. The first-of-its-kind surgery was carried out on a patient in Osaka earlier this month, the researchers announced at a news conference on Monday, according to Japanese news agency Jiji Press. While it’s still...
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Scientists are moving at record speed to create new coronavirus vaccines – but they may come too late
29.1.2020 | Press monitoring
In the stock pandemic movie, scientists are frantically working on concoctions to stop the spread of a newly emerging virus – and by the end, voila, they succeed and save the world. In the real world, vaccines played limited, if any, roles in slowing the Zika epidemic that walloped Latin America in 2016, the devastating 2014–16 West African Ebola...
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Biodegradable tube excels at treatment of nerve injuries
27.1.2020 | Press monitoring
When someone has suffered a major nerve injury, there are two common treatments: performing a nerve graft, or utilizing a conduit to guide the regrowth of the injured nerve. While both approaches have their drawbacks, a new variation on the latter may succeed where they fail. First of all, severed nerves are able to grow back together on their...
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Tackling antibiotic resistance: Phage-mimicking antibacterial core-shell nanoparticles could help
24.1.2020 | Press monitoring
According to the World Health Organization, one of the biggest health threats around the world is antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are working to combat this problem by looking to bacteriophages or phages. In a study published in Nanoscale Advances, the researchers have shown the efficacy of a new...
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Peptide tooth coating helps keep cavities at bay
22.1.2020 | Press monitoring
Tooth enamel is one of the few tissues in the body that doesn’t repair itself, which is why cavities are such a common health problem. Fillings are essentially the only treatment option widely available at the moment, but now researchers from China have created a new peptide-based coating that can prevent cavities from forming. Human saliva is a...
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Chemists find fungal shrapnel in the air
20.1.2020 | Press monitoring
In a discovery that has implications for our understanding of the air we breathe, UCI chemists report that they've found nanoscale fragments of fungal cells in the atmosphere. The pieces are extremely small, measuring about 30 nanometers in diameter, and much more abundant than previously thought. "These fragments are most likely bits of fungal...
Solid cryogel vaccine cures and protects against blood cancer in mice
17.1.2020 | Press monitoring
For today’s sufferers of the blood cancer acute myeloid leukemia (AML), standard chemotherapy remains the most common course of treatment, but the risk of recurrence is high and occurs in almost half of patients. In search of therapies that can offer longer-term protection, scientists at Harvard University have developed a new type of vaccine...
