Artificial super stool may be a game-changer in the treatment of chronic gut infections
The urgent need for human stool donations to treat chronic gut infections could soon be eased with innovative research to develop artificial super stool. The collaborative research aims to create a new generation of...
Research could enable biotechnology advances: medicine, protective equipment, sensors – Mirage News
U.S. Army Research LaboratoryRESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — New Army-funded synthetic biology research manipulated micro-compartments...
New technique to hyperpolarize and purify fumarate for MRI
A promising new concept published by an interdisciplinary research team in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" (PNAS) paves the way for major advances in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Their...
Treating neurological symptoms of CHARGE syndrome
Discovery of a treatment that alleviates some neurological symptoms of a rare genetic disorder
Credit: Christian Fleury (INRS)
CHARGE syndrome is a rare genetic disorder affecting about 1...
SARS-CoV-2 virus neutralized with half-second exposure to very high temperature
Researchers in the United States have shown that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – can be made incapable of infecting a host by...
Heat treatment for less than a second completely inactivates SARS-CoV-2
Arum Han, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, and his collaborators have designed an experimental system that shows exposure of SARS-CoV-2 to a very high temperature, even...
Effect of COVID-19 Antiviral Remdesivir Multiplied 10-Fold by Hepatitis C Drugs
Remdesivir, the only antiviral drug approved in the United States for treating COVID-19 patients, is up to 10 times more effective when it is mixed with a repurposed hepatitis C drug. The effect has...
Researchers develop eleven SARS-CoV-2 RBD nanobodies using computational design
The ongoing outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection poses a severe threat to humanity. To date, it has caused over 146.8...
Dietary amino acid determines the fate of cancer cells
Credit: RIKEN
A research group at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) has discovered molecular events that determine whether cancer cells live or die. With...
Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Switzerland
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