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How do muscles repair damage? Newly discovered metabolic ‘switch’ provides an answer
19+ hour, 22+ min ago (374+ words) Unveiling a cellular mechanism by which muscle stem cells repair damage, researchers spark hope for remedying muscle loss caused by injury, aging and weight-loss medications." A team of scientists from the University of California, Irvine, the University of California, Los…...
Herpesvirus makes itself at home: remodeling the host-cell nucleus
3+ week, 5+ day ago (116+ words) Original story from the University of Jyv'skyl' (Finland). Researchers show that the infection remodels nuclear biomechanics, leading to dramatic softening of the nucleus. To understand the phenomenon, advanced microscopy, including cryo-soft X-ray tomography (SXT) and atomic force microscopy (AFM), and…...
The first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering system for Pseudomonas aeruginosa
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (329+ words) Original story from New England Biolabs (MA, USA). Microbial communities, like the one in your gut, are fueling AMR How are microbial communities, like those in the human gut and natural environment, fueling the spread of antimicrobial resistance? Here's how....