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A ‘library’ of bacteria-killing viruses: Harnessing the power of phages
9+ hour, 42+ min ago (634+ words) Researchers at the CU Anschutz School of Medicine isolate bacteriophages — specialized viruses that only infect bacteria — and use them to study novel treatments for severe bacterial infections Credit: Courtesy of Breck Duerkop An estimated 38 trillion bacteria live in the human…...
Mild Pepper Virus Turned Into a Powerful Gene Tool for Crop Scientists
58+ min ago (624+ words) Pepper is one of the most economically important vegetable crops in the world, yet scientists trying to understand which of its genes do what have long been hampered by a stubborn technical bottleneck....
Why Trauma and Disordered Eating Go Hand in Hand: New Study Maps the Hidden
3+ hour, 37+ min ago (590+ words) For decades, clinicians have noticed a troubling pattern: women who carry the scars of trauma are far more likely than others to develop disordered eating, from binge eating to purging and compulsive body preoccupation. What has remained stubbornly unclear is…...
Splicing Complex Tied to Cell Fate Decisions in Developing Worms
3+ hour, 55+ min ago (734+ words) In the crowded nucleus of a living cell, a gene is only the beginning of a story. Before any protein can be made, the raw transcript of a gene—pre-messenger RNA—must be copied, capped, elongated, and meticulously edited, with…...
Jumping Genes Reveal How Jellyfish Genomes Grew, Shrank and Diversified
4+ hour, 7+ min ago (623+ words) Transposable elements, the mobile DNA sequences often called jumping genes, have long been recognized as powerful architects of genome evolution. They copy and paste themselves into new genomic locations, sometimes inflating genome size dramatically, sometimes shattering genes, and sometimes supplying…...
Selenium-Enriched Hydrogels Show Striking Cell Growth in Burn Wound Care
4+ hour, 46+ min ago (588+ words) Burn injuries affect more than 11 million people every year, and the search for dressings that do more than simply cover the wound has become one of the most active frontiers in biomedical materials science....
Soybean Enzyme GmASMT8 Emerges as Key Helper for a Damaging Plant Virus
5+ hour, 19+ min ago (618+ words) A soybean enzyme better known for its role in plant hormone chemistry has been unmasked as an unexpected accomplice of a viral pathogen....
Graphene Oxide Meets Methylglyoxal in New Attack on Chronic Wound Biofilms
6+ hour, 17+ min ago (86+ words) Chronic wounds are among the most stubborn problems in modern medicine. Diabetic ulcers, pressure sores, and venous leg ulcers can persist for months or years, resisting conventional antibiotics and dramatically reducing patients’ quality of life. A major reason for this…...
Stranded Porpoise Genome Reveals Hidden Lineage and Shrinking Habitat in
6+ hour, 16+ min ago (706+ words) A single finless porpoise that washed ashore on Kozhikode beach on India’s Arabian Sea coast has turned out to be far more than a sad stranding record....
Giraffe and Rhino Blood Chemistry Revealed in Landmark NMR Metabolomics
6+ hour, 33+ min ago (83+ words) In one of the most rigorous metabolomic comparisons ever attempted on African megafauna, researchers have mapped the circulating blood chemistry of giraffes and white rhinoceroses using proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, revealing striking differences between two of the world’s most…...