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When It Comes to Knee Pain, The Size of Your Meniscus Matters

With all of the fantastic imaging techniques available in healthcare today, clinicians are capable of diagnosing tissue and joint deformities using non-invasive imaging with remarkable accuracy.
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A Novel Molecular Mechanism Related to Neuronal Death

New research has revealed a molecular pathway that regulates neural cell death and the transport of mitochondria, which could help identify new therapeutic targets against neurodegenerative disease.
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Existing Drug May Aid Organ Donation, Study Suggests

Study suggests that a pain relief drug can quickly and reversibly induce a sleep-like state in cells and organs could facilitate organ transplantation and prevent irreversible tissue injury.
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Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Severe Lung Condition in Small Trial

An initial trial suggests a new type of cell therapy could improve the prognosis of those who are critically ill with acute respiratory distress syndrome resulting from Covid-19.
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Improving Fuel Cell Durability With Fatigue-Resistant Membranes

Vehicles speeding up and slowing down can cause cracks in fuel cells, but new fatigue-resistant membranes may help boost fuel cell durability.
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Scientists Code ChatGPT To Design New Drug Compounds

Generative AI like ChatGPT can do more than help write emails — it can also design new drugs to treat disease, reports a new study that shows how AI can generate unique molecular structures as potential drugs.
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MXene-Coated Devices Can Guide Microwaves in Space and Lighten Payloads

Waveguides are the pipes that direct and focus electromagnetic waves in telecommunications satellites and terrestrial devices like microwaves and phones.
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Technique Makes T Cells 100 Times More Potent at Killing Cancer Cells

Current immunotherapies work only against cancers of the blood and bone marrow. T cells engineered by Northwestern and UCSF were able to kill tumors derived from skin, lung and stomach in mice.
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Corn Genome's Collective Power Against Multiple Pathogens

Experimental corn lines with resistance to four pathogens have been developed., taking researchers a step closer to corn that can withstand changing disease dynamics.
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Pregnancy Alters Gut Microbiome and Impacts Immune Response

Pregnancy leads to an eruption of physiological and metabolic changes in the body. Among many of these changes are dramatic fluctuations in the immune system, but how these changes may take place has alluded scientists until now.
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