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Experimental gene therapy cassettes for Duchenne muscular dystrophy have been modified to deliver better performance.

High-performance Computing helps researchers understand experiments for observing real-time motion of lithium atoms in bi-layer graphene, paving the way for designing new materials for batteries and other electronics.

In an effort to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of searches for human remains, searchers should cover the same area twice from different angles and work no more than 1 to 2 meters apart while exploring the area.

Ingestible electronics is an emerging area of research, expected to enable the monitoring important of physiological conditions and biomarkers. This pill could be used to safely deliver biosensors to the stomach to monitor, for instance, pH levels or signs of infection.

Strategies for growing biomass for fuel can have ecological and environmental benefits rather than the negative impacts seen from some biofuel crops.

Researchers have found that rhomboid enzymes, which are special proteins that cut other proteins, are able to break the “cellular speed limit” as they move through the cell membrane.

When it comes to processing coffee beans, longer fermentation times can result in better taste, contrary to conventional wisdom, and lactic acid bacteria play an important, positive role in this process.

A major breakthrough in the effort to develop a cure for type 1 diabetes has been established; human stem cells have been transformed into mature insulin-producing cells

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have identified new messenger molecules shuttled between cells which could help to protect the survival of neurones – potentially leading to new treatments for MND.

The impressively high conversion rates of natural enzymes partly result from increasing the catalytic activity of a selected few amino acid side chains through precise positioning within the protein binding cavity. Scientists have now demonstrated that such fine-tuning is also possible for "designer" enzymes with unnatural catalytic amino acids.