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New Neuropsychiatric Journal Illuminates Brain-Behavior Links in Mental and
52+ min ago (626+ words) Despite extraordinary advances in biomedical science, neuropsychiatric disorders continue to impose one of the largest health burdens on societies worldwide. More than 1 billion people are estimated to live with conditions affecting the brain, behavior, mood, cognition, or nervous system, making…...
Scientists Discover and Design Potent Cell-Surface Display Elements
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (610+ words) Cell surface display has become one of biotechnology’s most useful strategies for controlling what cells present to their surroundings. By placing a protein, peptide or antigen on the exterior of a living cell, researchers can create systems for immune-cell activation,…...
OneCell CUT&Tag Maps Chromatin, Transcripts and Surface Markers,
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (669+ words) A new single-cell technology is giving researchers an unusually complete view of how individual cells establish and change their identities. Called OneCell CUT&Tag, the method simultaneously profiles chromatin states, gene activity and cell-surface markers from the same cell, even…...
Self-Healing, Electrically Polarized Hydrogel Advances Biomedical
11+ hour, 7+ min ago (410+ words) Researchers in Japan and Germany have created a self-healing hydrogel whose internal architecture is so precisely organized that it resembles a microscopic plumbing system. Built from a single synthetic peptide, the material forms helical nanofibers containing water-filled channels only a…...
Scientists Engineer Cellular Membrane Transport
13+ hour, 30+ min ago (520+ words) A team at the University of Stuttgart has developed a programmable DNA origami nanosyringe that can mechanically transport molecules across synthetic cell membranes....
Machine Learning May Make Prenatal Genetic Testing More Reliable
16+ hour, 18+ min ago (524+ words) Advances in genome sequencing are opening a new window onto fetal health, allowing clinicians to examine an unborn baby’s DNA for changes associated with genetic and neurodevelopmental conditions. Yet the same technology that can reveal potentially important mutations can also…...
Miniature microscope lets scientists observe and control brain cells during
20+ hour, 18+ min ago (400+ words) A tiny microscope weighing just five grams could give neuroscientists an unprecedented view of how individual brain cells control behavior while animals move naturally....
Arkansas researchers map genetic neighborhoods to identify disease-causing
20+ hour, 18+ min ago (391+ words) Scientists in Arkansas have developed a machine-learning approach that can identify potentially disease-causing strains of a poultry bacterium by analyzing not only which genes are present, but also how those genes are arranged across the genome....
High-resolution X-ray imaging reveals leaf interiors, guiding efforts to
20+ hour, 47+ min ago (338+ words) A new three-dimensional look inside sorghum leaves is revealing how crops may be redesigned to use less water without sacrificing the carbon dioxide they need for photosynthesis. Using high-resolution micro-computed tomography, or microCT, researchers have mapped the connections between leaf…...
The Complete Diploid Human Genome Has Finally Been Sequenced
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (640+ words) In 2022, the first human genome was completed, filling in the last 8% of the genome left unresolved by the Human Genome Project. Researchers have now gone one step further and reconstructed a complete diploid genome, establishing the most complete and highest-quality…...