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Targeting Bitter Taste Receptors To Treat Cancer
Bitter taste receptors found on cancer cells should be considered as additional targets for chemotherapeutic agents in the future and should be investigated in this regard, according to researchers.
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How Expectation Shapes What We Taste
A blind taste test demonstrates that Danes prefer the taste of conventionally and organically farmed smoked salmon over wild-caught salmon. However, the picture is turned upside down the second we find out where a fish comes from.
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Anemonefish Reproduction Disrupted by Chemical Pollutants
Researchers have discovered how chemical pollutants that are leaching into the water can affect the reproduction in common anemonefish.
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A Chewing Gum Designed To Trap SARS-CoV-2
Researchers have created a chewing gum laced with a plant-grown protein that serves as a “trap” for SARS-CoV-2. In doing so, a new study suggests that it can help to reduce the viral load in saliva.
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Single-Cell Map of Corn's Root Reveals a Regulator of Cellular Diversity
A new study uses novel single-cell profiling techniques to reveal how plants add new cell layers that help them resist climate stressors like drought or flooding.
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Mapping Ovarian and Endometrial Tumors at the Single-Cell Level
For the first time, researchers have determined, cell-by-cell, the genetic and epigenetic state of ovarian and endometrial tumors.
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Rapid Test Identifies Antibody Effectiveness Against COVID-19 Variants
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have devised a test to assess how well a person’s neutralizing antibodies fight infection from multiple variants of COVID-19 such as Delta and the newly discovered Omicron variant.
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Categorizing Distinct Pathogenic Processes in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia With Multiomics
An international team led by researchers at the University Hospital of Ulm has now comprehensively profiled and categorized over 700 tumor samples from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) by analyzing multiple levels of encoded biologic information.
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CRISPR Cas-9 Used To Create Single Sex Mice Litters
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, in collaboration with University of Kent, have used gene editing technology to create female-only and male-only mice litters with 100% efficiency.
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Which Side Are You On? How the Brain Sees Borders
In the classic “Rubin’s vase” optical illusion, you can see either a vase or two faces. At any given moment, which scene you perceive depends on whether your brain is viewing the central vase shape to be the foreground or background of the picture. Now, researchers have made headway into understanding how the brain decides which side of a visual border is a foreground object and which is background.
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