An international study has discovered a coronavirus epidemic broke out in the East Asia region more than 20,000 years ago, with traces of the outbreak…
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Scientists using computer modeling to study SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, have discovered the virus is most ideally adapted to infect human…
MIT biological engineers have demonstrated a way to easily retrieve data files stored as DNA. This could be a step toward using DNA archives to…
An illustration of the graphene-based COVID-19 spike protein detection process developed at UIC. The white rectangle represents the substrate with graphene functionalized with SARS-CoV-2 antibody…
Illustration of the cyanobacterial thylakoid membrane. Credit: Luning Liu et al. A new study conducted by the researchers at the University of Liverpool reveals how…
Confocal micrograph of mouse small intestine with the Red2Onco technology. With Red2Onco, the oncogenic mutant clones (Red clones), and normal or wild-type clones (Yellow or…
A team of scientists led by James Godwin, Ph.D., of the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, has come a step closer to unraveling…
Researchers from North Carolina State University have turned a longstanding challenge in DNA data storage into a tool, using it to offer users previews of…
Most high-value chemicals are currently produced using fossil fuels – industrial chemistry’s use of petroleum accounts for 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions. An exciting…
“Now we can mimic the massive ‘experiment’ going on in nature — where these mutations pop up due to natural selection — but we can…
Dr. Katalin Karikó is the recipient of the 2022 Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Biotechnology recognizing her scientific contributions that directly led to the development…
The amyloid beta protein that tangles to form the hallmark Alzheimer’s brain plaques, cling to ultra-small “bowls,” called nanobowls, scientists find. They can use these…
The neuromorphic chip reliably and precisely detects high-frequency oscillations in previously recorded intracranial EEG. Credit: UZH, ETHZ, USZ Researchers from Zurich have developed a compact,…
Top view of a biobot, consisting of a muscle cell-laden hydrogel and a spring-like skeleton. Credit: IBEC Robotics field aims at mimicking what natural biological…
A Beemmunity employee, Abraham McCauley, applies a pollen patty containing microsponges to a hive as part of colony trials. Credit: Nathan Reid A Cornell-developed technology…
Testing of the “electronic nose.” Credit: Kobi Snitz Electronic nose might “sniff out” COVID-19-infected people at mass scale, according to a preliminary proof-of-concept study. [embedded…
Biologists led by the University of Iowa used a special technique called eDNA to discover an invasive species of tiny snails in streams in central…
Confocal microscopic image of cortical neurons after two-step labeling. The neurons were fixed, permeabilized, and immunostained with an anti-MAP2 antibody for visualizing the dendrite. Green…
Credit: Washington University In St. Louis New Tool Combines Ultrasound, Genetics to Activate Deep Brain Neurons Neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy have…
Alzheimer’s disease – also called dementia – where memory and cognitive functions gradually decline due to deformation and death of neurons, and Parkinson’s disease that…