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Scientists have used CRISPR, the gene-editing technique, to study the role of antimicrobial peptides in innate immunity in a Drosophila model.

Estrogen in the brain is important to keep neurons communicating and memories being made, scientists report. Neurons in both males and females make estrogen and the scientists have shown that when they don’t, their brains have significantly less dense spines and synapses — both key communication points for neurons — in the biggest part of their brain, called the forebrain.

A new microfluidic chip separates cancer cells from whole blood or minimally-diluted blood using sticky tags, i.e. affinity separation.

A team has used hydrogels to mimic the environment of lung cancer, selectively allowing cancer cells, and not healthy cells, to invade. This emulated environment enabled their collaborators to screen for both cancer-cell growth and invasion.

In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have identified one of the main mechanisms behind the repair of serious damage to the human DNA. A ‘scanner’ inside the cells decides whether or not so-called flawless DNA repair, which protects against cancer, is launched.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have studied large amounts of data from tissue samples of the skin to map its molecules and their functions.

Researchers have developed a next-generation bionic hand that allows amputees to regain their proprioception. The results of the study, which have been published in Science Robotics, are the culmination of ten years of robotics research.

At Silicon Valley’s premier chip-design conference, integrated circuit designers unveil technology that they say is 10 times more reliable than current methods of producing unclonable digital fingerprints for Internet of Things devices.

A maternal blood test based on cell-free DNA could detect innumerable diseases caused by single mutations in the fetal genome.

Changing the ventilation settings for children on life support can reduce the risk of damage to their lungs, researchers at the University of Warwick and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have found on computer simulated patients.