'Zip codes' tell RNA where to go
Scientists solve the riddle of how RNA molecules get to their designated locations.
Jul 30th, 2022
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Programming pH
Researchers have developed a technique to control pH at the local level, creating a dense array of microsites where the amount of protons is 100 to 1000 times higher than the average in the rest of the solution.
Jul 27th, 2022
Read moreScientists engineer living biosensors to track the genetic activity of cells
Researchers have developed a tool that logs a cell's genetic activity for days at a time. The biological device, named a Retro-Cascorder, records data within strands of DNA, which can then be analyzed at any time to get the cell�s activity log.
Jul 27th, 2022
Read moreEvolutionary model predicts partitioning of molecules within cells
Scientists have developed a new theoretical method to study mixtures consisting of many different molecules. They analyzed how the molecules interact to reliably form different droplets, as happens continuously in living cells. With this model, particular droplet formation based on many interacting molecules can be predicted for the first time.
Jul 26th, 2022
Read moreCRISPR therapeutics can damage the genome
According to a research team, the CRISPR genome editing method is very effective, but not always safe. Sometimes cleaved chromosomes do not recover and genomic stability is compromised - which in the long run might promote cancer.
Jul 25th, 2022
Read moreNew device design brings unparalleled confidence to cell measurements
Direct uncertainty measurements are now possible in flow cytometry.
Jul 23rd, 2022
Read moreEngineers develop new tool that will allow for more personalized cell therapies
A new quantitative approach gives scientists and engineers more control over the DNA editing process.
Jul 20th, 2022
Read moreSynthetic tools conduct messages from station to station in DNA
Researchers have demonstrated that CRISPR-Cas9, increasingly famous as a gene-editing tool, can be employed in powerful additional ways in human cells.
Jul 18th, 2022
Read moreCreating the cells that can be everything and more
Removing a newly discovered 'lock' from DNA's packaging can restore limitless abilities to early cells.
Jul 16th, 2022
Read moreMicroparticles could be used to deliver 'self-boosting' vaccines
With particles that release their payloads at different times, one injection could provide multiple vaccine doses.
Jul 15th, 2022
Read moreOpening new doors: First synthetic mechanosensitive potassium channel
Intrigued by the properties of ion channel proteins commonly observed in cells, researchers have developed the first synthetic mechanosensitive potassium channel using a newly developed aromatic fluorinated amphiphilic cyclophane. Displaying both stimuli responsiveness and selective ion transport abilities, their new ion channel could open new doors for the future therapeutic and industrial usage of synthetic mechanosensitive channels.
Jul 15th, 2022
Read moreScientists develop new method and device to isolate single cells using electric fields
The new process, which is more effective and efficient than conventional methods, has the potential to significantly impact cancer diagnostics as well as other fields of research.
Jul 14th, 2022
Read moreSoft but tough: Biohybrid material performs like cartilage
Producing biomaterials that match the performance of cartilage and tendons has been an elusive goal for scientists, but a new material demonstrates a promising new approach to mimicking natural tissue.
Jul 12th, 2022
Read moreResearchers develop user-friendly software system to optimize biological systems
Scientists have developed a modular software system for optimizing biological systems. The research team demonstrates its usability and versatility with a variety of biological examples.
Jul 9th, 2022
Read moreArtificial intelligence folds RNA molecules
Scientists describe a way to use AI to reliably predict the structure of certain RNA molecules from their nucleotide sequence.
Jul 8th, 2022
Read more'You are what you eat', and now researchers know exactly what you're eating
Matching blood or stool samples to a reference database of foods reveals how much of our body chemistry is traceable to what we consume.
Jul 7th, 2022
Read moreThe human body has 37 trillion cells. If we can work out what they all do, the results could revolutionize healthcare
The average body contains about 37 trillion cells - and we are in the midst of a revolutionary quest to understand what they all do. Unravelling this requires the expertise of scientists from all different backgrounds - computer scientists, biologists, clinicians and mathematicians - as well as new technology and some pretty sophisticated algorithms.
Jul 7th, 2022
Read moreScientists develop new material inspired by limpets with super strength
An interdisciplinary team of biologists, chemists and engineers have become the first to successfully grow a limpet inspired biomaterial with extreme strength.
Jul 7th, 2022
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