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What Can the Fruit Fly Teach Us About Taste?

The fruit fly has multiple taste organs throughout its body to detect chemicals known as tastants, that signal whether a food is palatable or harmful.
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Infection With the Common Cold Blocks SARS-CoV-2 Replication

Researchers have found that the virus responsible for the common cold triggers an innate immune response that seems to block SARS-CoV-2 replication in cells of the respiratory tract.
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Investigating How Drug Interactions Influence Antibiotic Resistance

Researchers have designed a model to predict how drug resistance evolves in response to different antibiotic combinations, doses and sequences.
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To Avoid Vaccine Hesitance, Emphasize Personal Health Benefits of COVID-19 Vaccination

Messages emphasizing the personal health benefits of COVID-19 vaccines have the best chance of increasing vaccination levels across the nation, according to research conducted by University of Wyoming economists.
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Some Substances in Fruits and Vegetables Possess Anti-Tumor Properties

Chemists have discovered how substances in fruits and vegetables prevent the development of tumors, stop the formation of malignant tumors and inhibit the division of cancer cells.
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Getting a Handle on Asymmetry in Drug Synthesis

A team of researchers has found a catalyst that achieves exceptionally high-precision addition of hydrogen to carbon-carbon bonds, improving targeted synthesis helping to reduce wasteful by-products.
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DNA Tags Could Help To Assess Cancer Treatment Effects

Cell-free DNA shed into the blood was discovered in the late 1940s. Researchers now believe that studying modifications to this type of DNA may lead to a better understanding of how to assess treatment approaches for cancer and other diseases.
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Revealing How the Body Discovers and Responds to Wounds

Researchers have established a novel way to understand how the body detects and responds to wounds.
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Portable Chemistry Kit Enables On-Site Testing of Bush Fruits

A prototype digital and portable bush fruits chemistry toolkit has been developed for communities to use on site, to measure key market attributes of popular bush fruits.
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Microscope Designed To Study Molecular Oxygen in Fine Detail

Scientists hope to achieve the basis for a microscopic understanding of the oxidation reaction. This interaction plays a central role in future-relevant technologies, for example in organic light-emitting diodes and solar cells, in photocatalytic energy conversion and photosynthesis, and in photodynamic cancer therapy.
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