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Research team outlines three-step technique that lets human body defend against Hep B

A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has unraveled the precise operation of this defensive mechanism after finding a crucial protein complex that is active when our body is infected by the virus, paving the path for novel treatment targets.

5 Oct 2022

The strategy used by metastatic cancer cells to invade the liver identified

The alternative pathway for liver metastasis has been revealed by a team of researchers.

5 Oct 2022

Research shows readily available pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity in the United States

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Sept. 12 to launch a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, noting the United States relies too heavily on foreign materials and foreign bioproduction.

5 Oct 2022

New guidelines to generate high-quality, well-structured organoids

Researchers have opened a new avenue for investigations of neurological development, disease, and therapies that cannot be undertaken in living people by employing stem cells to grow small brain-like structures in the lab.

30 Sep 2022

Researchers use zebrafish larvae to study how the brain reacts to warmer temperatures

Which organisms survive and which succumb when the climate changes? A small larval fish is providing surprising insight into how the brain reacts when the temperature rises.

30 Sep 2022

Dogs can discriminate between baseline and stress odors

The physiological processes associated with an acute psychological stress response produce changes in human breath and sweat that dogs can detect with an accuracy of 93.75%, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Clara Wilson of Queen's University Belfast, UK, and colleagues.

29 Sep 2022

The exchange of nutrients between the mother and fetus mirrored by ‘placenta-on-a-chip’

Plasmodium falciparum infections can result in placental malaria, which can have serious consequences for both mother and child. Nearly 200,000 newborn fatalities annually from placental malaria, primarily as a result of low birth weight, as well as 10,000 maternal deaths.

27 Sep 2022

WEHI receives $2.5 million fund to develop personalized cancer treatments

With a $2.5 million fund received from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), a new genomics project led by WEHI will develop precision medicine and customized cancer therapy for Australians.

From Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) 27 Sep 2022

Modified silk fibroin repels water

Tufts University scientists recently devised a technique to produce silk-based materials that do not stick to water, or almost anything else containing water.

26 Sep 2022

Special blood vessels may protect whales from brain damage while swimming

Special blood vessels in whale brains may protect them from pulses, caused by swimming, in their blood that would damage the brain, new UBC research has suggested.

23 Sep 2022

Chemical compounds play a pivotal role in host selection behaviors

A team of researchers headed by UC Riverside found that the combination of carbon dioxide and two chemicals—2-ketoglutaric and lactic acids—evokes a scent that kindles the mosquito to trace and land on its victim.

22 Sep 2022

New study supports bradykinin storm theory of COVID-19's viral pathogenesis

A new paper published in Nature Communications adds further evidence to the bradykinin storm theory of COVID-19's viral pathogenesis -; a theory that was posited two years ago by a team of researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

19 Sep 2022