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Hydrogel Therapy: A Novel Defense Against Viral Infections

Vaccines remain the gold standard of protection against dangerous pathogens, but take considerable time and vast resources to develop.

24 Apr 2024

Nasal Cells in Children Shield Against Severe COVID-19

Children usually have milder COVID-19 symptoms; this could be due to differences in how elderly and young people's nasal cells react to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

16 Apr 2024

Leveraging the Materiobiology Approach to Design Biomaterials for Aged Bone Repair

In the elderly, a multitude of factors contribute to diminished bone regeneration capabilities, including a reduction in the self-renewal and differentiation abilities of mesenchymal stem cells, an excessive accumulation of inflammatory signals, compromised blood vessel regeneration capacity, an imbalance between bone anabolism and catabolism, and inadequate bone innervation.

13 Apr 2024

Cellular Insights Into Facial Morphogenesis

Mother Nature is an artist, but her craft of creating animal faces requires more than a paintbrush and palette. Such highly complex shapes originate from their respective transient neural crest cells.

12 Apr 2024

New Platform Reveals Individual Sensitivity to Disease-Causing Mutations

In humans, the exact same mutation in a specific gene can produce widely different outcomes. It's a bit like adding the same amount of salt to different recipes-;the effect on the finished dish can be quite different, depending on the mix of other ingredients.

4 Apr 2024

Unveiling Mechanisms to Block Tau Aggregation

The buildup of aberrant, misfolded tau proteins in the brain is the cause of a variety of neurodegenerative illnesses, such as Fronto Temporal Dementia (FTD), Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), and Cortico Basal Degeneration (CBD).

4 Apr 2024

Non-Immune Cells Form Memory, Boosts Inflammatory Response

An essential component of adaptive immunity is immunological memory, which is the capacity to react to a foreign material or antigen more quickly and intensely when exposed again.

21 Mar 2024

DNA Origami Revolutionizes Cancer Immunotherapy: The DoriVac Breakthrough

Therapeutic cancer vaccines are a form of immunotherapy in the making that could not only destroy cancer cells in patients, but keep a cancer from coming back and spreading.

15 Mar 2024

Researchers Identify Proteins to Reprogram Fibroblasts into Limb Progenitor Cells

In a collaborative study, researchers from Kyushu University and Harvard Medical School have identified proteins that can turn or "reprogram" fibroblasts -; the most commonly found cells in skin and connective tissue -; into cells with similar properties to limb progenitor cells.

5 Mar 2024

UC Davis Researchers Identify a Promising New Fungicide to Fight Devastating Crop Diseases

A promising new fungicide to fight devastating crop diseases has been identified by researchers at the University of California, Davis.

1 Mar 2024

Scientists Discover Dual Challenges in DNA Replication Process

Half a century ago, scientists Jim Watson and Alexey Olovnikov independently realized that there was a problem with how our DNA gets copied.

29 Feb 2024

Research Reveals Conserved Neutralizing Epitope in Herpesvirus gB Protein

Human herpesviruses comprise the alpha, beta, and gamma subfamilies and are a widely prevalent group of DNA-enveloped viruses, capable of establishing lifelong latent infections in humans and causing various diseases.

27 Feb 2024

New ACMG Statement Urges Caution with Polygenic Risk Score Testing in Embryo Selection

Should we be using polygenic risk score assessment for embryo selection? Providing in-depth analysis, the Social, Ethical and Legal Issues Committee of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) has released a new Points to Consider statement to assist healthcare professionals and patients in understanding the safety and utility of preimplantation genetic testing for polygenic disorders (PGT-P) as a clinical service.

26 Feb 2024

Discovery of a Subset of Human Short Introns That Are Spliced Out by a Novel Mechanism

The well-known essential pre-mRNA splicing factor U2AF heterodimer (U2AF2–U2AF1) has been considered to mediate early splicing reaction in all introns of different lengths.

15 Feb 2024

Cholangiocarcinoma: New Organ-On-Chip Aims at Accelerating Research and Personalized Medicine

It is only a few centimeters in size and can be held between two fingers, but in the micro-channels carved inside it, it’s hidden a three-dimensional and highly faithful model of a biliary tract cancer called cholangiocarcinoma, complete with its tumor microenvironment.

23 Jan 2024

Breakthrough 3D Vascular Sheet Mimics Atherosclerosis for High-Throughput Drug Screening

A groundbreaking 3D, three-layer nanomatrix vascular sheet that possesses multiple features of atherosclerosis has been applied for developing a high-throughput functional assay of drug candidates to treat this disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers report in the journal Biomaterials.

16 Jan 2024

in vitro News and Research

Hydrogel Therapy: A Novel Defense Against Viral Infections

Nasal Cells in Children Shield Against Severe COVID-19

Leveraging the Materiobiology Approach to Design Biomaterials for Aged Bone Repair

Cellular Insights Into Facial Morphogenesis

New Platform Reveals Individual Sensitivity to Disease-Causing Mutations

Unveiling Mechanisms to Block Tau Aggregation

Non-Immune Cells Form Memory, Boosts Inflammatory Response

DNA Origami Revolutionizes Cancer Immunotherapy: The DoriVac Breakthrough

Researchers Identify Proteins to Reprogram Fibroblasts into Limb Progenitor Cells

UC Davis Researchers Identify a Promising New Fungicide to Fight Devastating Crop Diseases

Scientists Discover Dual Challenges in DNA Replication Process

Research Reveals Conserved Neutralizing Epitope in Herpesvirus gB Protein

New ACMG Statement Urges Caution with Polygenic Risk Score Testing in Embryo Selection

Discovery of a Subset of Human Short Introns That Are Spliced Out by a Novel Mechanism

Cholangiocarcinoma: New Organ-On-Chip Aims at Accelerating Research and Personalized Medicine

Breakthrough 3D Vascular Sheet Mimics Atherosclerosis for High-Throughput Drug Screening

Novel Amino Acid Nanoparticles Offer Hope for Fighting Multi-Drug Resistant Cancers

Genetic Twist in Tiny Protein Protects Against Parkinson's

Breakthrough in Synthetic Biology: Researchers Build Artificial CO2-Fixing Pathway

A Dihydrofolate Reductase Single-Domain Protein Catenane

Quorum Bio: Where Synthetic Biology Meets Sustainable Farming

Diagnostic Biochips: Pioneering Brain Research Tools for the Future

Commercializing Innovation in a Life Sciences Ecosystem

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