Bacteria repurpose viral injection systems to target diverse cells
New study shows how bacteria adapted a virus-derived injection system to recognize and attach to many different types…
Researchers open ‘window to the brain’ with powerful cancer tech
Technology created at The University of Queensland could improve the odds of surviving brain cancer and change how…
Nasal spray vaccine prevents infection from highly pathogenic H5N1 virus
Researchers at WashU Medicine have developed a nasal vaccine against the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, or…
ERC Proof of Concept grant supports promising CRISPR-based cancer treatment research
Microbiologist John van der Oost of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) has received an ERC Proof of Concept…
Scientists offer new insight into how common parasite T. gondii causes disease
A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has found that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite affecting up to…
WVU researchers explore how to restore vision in people with inherited blindness
A research team at the WVU is studying how to restore vision in people who develop a form…
Thermogenic beige fat protects blood vessels from hypertension
Obesity causes hypertension. Hypertension causes cardiovascular disease. And cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. While…
A safer gene-editing tool shows promise for transthyretin amyloidosis treatment
Genetic disorders occur due to alterations in the primary genetic material, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), of an organism. Transthyretin…
New method measures how effectively antibiotics kill bacteria
Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory…
UBC researchers crack code to grow helper t cells from stem cells
For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important type…
In the future teeth could be regrown in a lab – The Irish News
Picture this: you’re sitting at home, scrolling through cat videos, when your phone buzzes with a message—“Good news!…
Vibration-induced local vortices enable low-cost biomolecular condensate engineering
A research group led by Professor Hiroaki SUZUKI and Takeshi HAYAKAWA from the Faculty of Science and Engineering…