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A team of engineers and scientists has developed a method of "multiplying" organoids. The researchers used their method to culture and grow a "mini-airway", the first time that a tube-shaped organoid has been developed without the need for any external support.

Researchers have designed a personalized genomic medicine platform that will help advance genomic medicine research and genome-informed drug discovery projects.

Drug molecules that can block filoviruses such as Ebola and Marburg from infecting cells by occupying a single site on a glycoprotein in the virus have been identified.

Regions with high levels of outdoor artificial light at night may produce a higher risk of developing thyroid cancer for residents.

Targeting and changing the process of cell recycling has been linked to helping control or diminish certain cancers. Completely halting this process in HER2-positive breast cancer may improve outcomes for patients.

A Phase 2 randomized study has shown that inhaled budesonide, a corticosteroid used to manage asthma, significantly reduces the need for urgent care and hospitalization in patients diagnosed with COVID-19. The findings were published on the medRxiv preprint server.

In order to improve conventional treatments of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), a team has identified a therapeutic approach to restore immune cell effectiveness.

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) was used to show the previously unknown direct correlation between the elimination of glucose via the kidneys and new glucose production in the liver.

A team of scientists from Japan have found success in growing small intestinal cells, akin to those found in the human body, from human-induced pluripotent stem cells.

A single-cell study has discovered that all neuroblastomas arise from a single type of embryonic cell called sympathoblasts.