Scientists have demonstrated that HIV-1 replication can be completely shut down and the virus eliminated from infected cells in animals with a powerful gene editing technology known as CRISPR/Cas9.
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A permanent cure for HIV infection remains...
Confocal immunofluorescence images showing the tiled arrangements of serotonergic neurons in the hippocampus of a normal mouse (left), and the uneven spacing and clumping of serotonergic fibers in a mutant mouse lacking Pcdhc2 (right).
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Columbia scientists...
Slender faces are also associated with overbites and left-handedness.
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Individuals with a slender lower face are about 25 percent more likely to be left-handed. This unexpected finding (abstract) was identified in 13,536 individuals who participated in...
The “Smart Scar-Care” pad designed by Professor Cecilia Li-Tsang in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, PolyU, serves the dual functions of reinforcing pressure and occlusion. It can treat hypertrophic scars from burns, surgeries and trauma.
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This is Stina Simonsson.
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A team of researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy has managed to generate cartilage tissue by printing stem cells using a 3D-bioprinter. The fact that the stem cells survived being printed in this manner is...
Researchers identify a new region, named DiMes, which is an homologous region to the one in a common ancestor for vertebrates.
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A study recently published in PLOS Biology provides information that substantially changes the prevailing idea...
The analysis, based on existing studies that looked at more than 3.5 million people in more than 90 countries, confirmed that depression affects far more females than males.
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An analysis just published online has broken new...
New paper by UCR'S Kate Sweeny argues that worrying has its benefits.
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Worry -- it does a body good. And, the mind as well. A new paper by Kate Sweeny, psychology professor at the University of...
Tibetan plateau with grazing yaks and brown mountains.
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The Tibetan people have inherited variants of five different genes that help them live at high altitudes, with one gene originating in the extinct human subspecies, the...
Every human is home to a collection of thousands of diverse species of microbes known as the microbiota. Ecological processes, such as competition for resources, help determine each person's unique collection of species.
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The collection...
Image shows bone progenitor cells labeled by red glow inside a cleared femur.
Credit: A. Greenbaum et al., Science Translational Medicine (2017)
Cells engineered to produce insulin under the command of a smartphone helped keep blood sugar levels within normal limits...
