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OncoHost, announced that Professor Yuval Shaked, Professor of Cell Biology and Cancer Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, will deliver a presentation titled A Proteomics-Based Platform for Predicting Response to Immunotherapy and Personalizing Treatment Plans at the MAP 2020 Virtual Congress.

Examination of 14th and 15th century latrines in Jerusalem and Riga, Latvia, identifies some of the microbes that colonized the gut of these pre-industrial populations and sheds light on how the human gut microbiome has changed since the Middle Ages.

A larger part of the Amazon rainforest is at risk of crossing a tipping point where it could become a savanna-type ecosystem than previously thought. A research team explored the resilience of tropical rainforests by looking at two questions: what if all the forests in the tropics disappeared, where would they grow back? And its inverse: what happens if rainforests covered the entire tropical region of Earth?

Harvey J. Alter MD has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Dr Alter is a Senior Scholar at the NIH Clinical Center’s Department of Transfusion Medicine and shares the award with Michael Houghton, PhD, University of Alberta, Canada, and Charles M. Rice, PhD, Rockefeller University, New York City.

PerkinElmer announced that the Company’s EONIS™ screening assay for newborns has received CE-IVD approval. The design of the EONIS assay enables automation with JANUS Liquid Handlers to further streamline the workflow of high-throughput laboratories without compromising the sample traceability from punch to result.

A new study published today shows how faecal transplants from older to younger mice altered their gut microbiome, which in turn impacted their spatial learning and memory. "Research has shown that the aging process may be linked with age-related changes in our gut microbiota."

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a protein in the brain that is important both for the function of the mood-regulating substance serotonin and for the release of stress hormones in mice. The researchers have previously shown that a protein called p11 plays an important role in the function of serotonin, a neurotransmitter in the brain that regulates mood.

The unusual case of a patient, unable to move or talk for eight years, who suddenly regained the ability to do both after being administered a sleeping pill has been reported by researchers.

Cell lines injected with free nucleic acid are widely used for drug discovery and disease modeling. Investigators use dilution techniques to select single cells that will then generate identical lines. A new study by Northwestern researchers shows Nanofountain Probe Electroporation (NFP-E) could resolve tedious and time-consuming techniques.

The content of the nightmares of nearly a thousand individuals during the coronavirus pandemic were analysed in a study published in the Frontiers in Psychology journal. The study found that the pandemic had affected more than half of the bad dreams reported.