In the future, you could be your very own fountain of youth — or at least your own skin repair […]
Programmable swarmbots make flexible biological tools: The biomanufacturing platform uses bursting bacteria and a shrinking capsule to produce targeted proteins
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new platform to create biologic drugs using specially engineered bacteria that burst […]
Gene editing tool gets sharpened by WFIRM team
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine scientists have fine-tuned their delivery system to deliver a DNA editing tool to alter […]
As light as a lemon: How the right smell can help with a negative body image
The scent of a lemon could help people feel better about their body image, new findings from University of Sussex […]
Closing the gap: Two-tier mechanism for epithelial barrier
Epithelia are cell sheets that act as a barrier to protect our body from the external environment. Epithelial barrier is […]
Drug interaction research: Evolution clues
A biologist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has shown that a key biological component in a worm’s communication system can […]
Patterns in DNA reveal hundreds of unknown protein pairings: Method will be applied to human genome to learn more about how our proteins interact to carry out biological functions
Sequencing a genome is getting cheaper, but making sense of the resulting data remains hard. Researchers have now found a […]
Snout dated: Slow-evolving elephant shark offers new insights into human physiology
The mineralocortoid receptor (MR) regulates water and sodium transport throughout cells and tissues, which is critical for controlling blood pressure […]
Unknown mini-proteins in the heart
A team led by Professor Norbert Hübner’s MDC research group has observed the human heart cells’ “protein factories” in action, […]
DNA tests for patients move closer with genome analysis advance
Diseases caused by genetic changes could be detected more readily thanks to an advance in DNA analysis software. The development […]