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Researchers have identified a rare cell type in the gastrointestinal tract that is likely responsible for the secretion of high volumes of water in humans. This cell type provides a link to gastrointestinal defects in patients with cystic fibrosis.

Researchers have determined that cognitive biases — patterns of errors in thinking that affect judgments and behaviors, often unconsciously — can help create and worsen foodborne disease outbreaks. The study concludes outbreak prevention policies should account for inadvertent behaviors.

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.

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.

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.

The study of a venomous toadfish named Thalassophryne nattererivenomous has confirmed a route to drug development for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis and asthma.

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most prevalent form of lung cancer. Now, researchers have designed a new method to detect circulating tumor cells (CTCs), a telltale sign of metastases, in patients with NSCLC.

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.

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.

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.