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Researchers Grow Lifelike Piece of Bone Tissue From Human Stem Cells
Imagine using stem cells from your bone marrow to grow a piece of bone tissue in the lab, after which medical doctors explore which drugs have the desired effect on your bones. That vision of the future is no longer science fiction now that researchers have realized the first part: growing a lifelike piece of bone tissue from human stem cells.
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Antioxidant Boosts Yield of Protein-Producing Plants
A team led by Professor Kenji Miura of the University of Tsukuba has discovered that spraying leaves with high concentrations of the antioxidant ascorbic acid (vitamin C) can increase protein production three-fold or even more.
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Drug for Deadly Brain Disease Tested Using Human Cerebral Organoids
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have further developed an existing human cerebral organoid model to screen drugs for their potential to treat Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a fatal neurodegenerative brain disease.
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Silkworm Silk Used To Model Skeletal Muscle
Researchers at Utah State University are using silkworm silk to grow skeletal muscle cells, improving on traditional methods of cell culture and hopefully leading to better treatments for muscle atrophy.
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How the South African COVID-19 Variant Was Found
Variants of the coronavirus are appearing in different parts of the world, many of them spreading with alarming speed. One contagious variant is the South African, or SA, variant, identified by an international team of researchers, including biomedical scientists from the University of California, Riverside.
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Multicellular Liver-on-a-Chip Models Fatty Liver Disease
Researchers have developed an advanced, multicellular, structurally representative liver-on-a-chip model which mimics the full progression sequence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Genomic Profiling Tracks the Global Spread of Disease
Scientists in 18 countries have used genome sequencing technology to track the the global spread and exchange of Streptococcus equi, which causes the disease strangles, in the largest ever study of its kind.
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Study Reveals How Egg Cells Get So Big
A new study has revealed that the process through which egg cells grow significantly and rapidly before fertilization relies on physical phenomena analogous to the exchange of gases between balloons of different sizes.
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Rapid 3D Printing Method Developed
University at Buffalo-led research team advances technique that speeds up conventional 3D printing by 10-50 times.
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Predicting Therapy Success With Individualized Models of Prostate Cancer
At present, drug response in cancer patients cannot be predicted. A research team has developed a new strategy for the generation of prostate cancer organoids that can contribute to the assessment of therapy response.
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