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Scientists Begin To Unravel the Complexity of DNA Enhancers
In an attempt to learn more about DNA enhancers, the Crocker group from EMBL Heidelberg performed an extensive study, published in Nature, on a specific enhancer in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster, a species of fruit fly.
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New Blood Test Predicts Which COVID-19 Patients Will Develop Severe Infection
Scientists have developed a score that can accurately predict which patients will develop a severe form of COVID-19, enabling clinicians to make more informed decisions when identifying patients who may benefit from therapies, such as steroids, and admission to intensive care units.
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Blood Test Could Identify COVID-19 Patients at Risk of "Cytokine Storm" Hyperinflammation
Southampton researchers have identified a blood profile that could help identify COVID-19 patients at greatest risk of deterioration and direct them towards trials of specific treatments that could modify their immune systems' responses.
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Biodiversity Key to Sweetpotato Crop Resiliance
Sweetpotato biodiversity can help increase climate-resilience of small-scale farming, according to the findings of a study undertaken by researchers from the French public research institution IRD, CIRAD, and the CGIAR center, the International Potato Center (CIP).
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Heart-on-a-Chip Gives Insights Into Cardioprotective Effects of Extracellular Vesicles
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have unraveled potential mechanisms behind the healing power of extracellular vesicles and demonstrated their capacity to not only revive cells after a heart attack, but keep cells functioning while deprived of oxygen during a heart attack.
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Researchers Use Lab-Grown Tissue Grafts for Personalized Joint Replacement
A team led by Columbia Engineering has bioengineered anatomically precise living grafts for personalized replacement of a jaw joint, using the recipient's fat-derived cells, and demonstrated effectiveness in a clinically sized swine model.
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Virus-Mimicking Drug Improves Immune System’s Ability To Target Cancer Cells
Researchers have found that a drug that activates the body's natural defenses by behaving like a virus may also make certain melanoma tumors visible to the immune system, enabling the cancer cells to be better targeted by immunotherapy.
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Coupling Machine Learning With MS/MS To Characterize Drug Compounds
Purdue University scientists have developed a new approach that involves applying machine learning concepts to the tandem mass spectrometry process to improve the flow of information in the development of new drugs.
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Respiratory Droplets Don’t Obey Our Social Distancing
One of the sobering findings as researchers model the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in various temperatures and relative humidities in typical indoor situations.
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Immune Factor Identified as Important in Psychiatric Disorders
Numerous scientific studies indicate that inflammatory processes play a key role in the development of psychiatric disorders. Now researchers have made a link between the immune system, serotonergic transmission and affective disorders such as depression.
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