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SARS-CoV-2 mutations in competition

Accurately assess the transmissibility of new virus mutants

02-Mar-2021 - How dangerous are new mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus? An international team involving researchers from the Institute of Virology and Immunology (IVI) of the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office BLV and the University of Bern (Switzerland), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

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Super-Resolution RNA Imaging in Live Cells

Innovative method provides new insight into molecular processes involving RNA

02-Mar-2021 - Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is key to various fundamental biological processes. It transfers genetic information, translates it into proteins or supports gene regulation. To achieve a more detailed understanding of the precise functions it performs, researchers based at Heidelberg University and at ...

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Cerium sidelines silver to make drug precursor

Rice University lab's process simplifies fluoroketone synthesis

02-Mar-2021 - Save your silver! It's better used for jewelry than as a catalyst for drugs. Rice University scientists have developed a greatly simplified method to make fluoroketones, precursors for drug design and manufacture that typically require a silver catalyst. Rice chemist Julian West and graduate ...

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LabCentral Announces $22.4 Million in Committed Funding for LabCentral 238 including New Sponsors Thermo Fisher Scientific and Waters Corporation

Scale-up bio-manufacturing facility is expected to open in November 2021

01-Mar-2021 - LabCentral, the first-of-its-kind shared laboratory space designed as a launchpad for high-potential biotech startups, announced a total of $22.4 million in sponsorship commitments for LabCentral 238, a fully functional life sciences laboratory with a focus on scale-up bio-manufacturing. Thermo ...

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Reactivating Aging Stem Cells in the Brain

With increasing age, and in patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, the hippocampus’ ability to create new neurons declines steadily – and with it, its memory functions

01-Mar-2021 - As people get older, their neural stem cells lose the ability to proliferate and produce new neurons, leading to a decline in memory function. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now discovered a mechanism linked to stem cell aging – and how the production of neurons can be ...

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Vitamin B6 may help keep COVID-19's cytokine storms at bay

Vitamin B6 may help calm cytokine storms and unclog blood clots linked to COVID-19's lethality

01-Mar-2021 - Who would have thought that a small basic compound like vitamin B6 in the banana or fish you had this morning may be key to your body's robust response against COVID-19? Studies have so far explored the benefits of vitamins D and C and minerals like zinc and magnesium in fortifying immune ...

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A gene provides both protection and destruction

Researchers discover new function of the widely disseminated, yet little understood ENDOU enzyme

01-Mar-2021 - The family of ENDOU enzymes is found in most organisms, yet its functions are only poorly understood. In humans, it has been connected with cancer. RNA viruses, such as SARS-CoV2, contain a gene corresponding to ENDOU, and this is important for virus replication and the suppression of the immune ...

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Bayer delivers robust performance despite pandemic

Foundation laid for future growth

26-Feb-2021 - The Bayer Group delivered robust operational performance in 2020. “Our operational strength in these turbulent times shows just how resilient our businesses are, even during the pandemic,” said Werner Baumann, Chairman of the Board of Management, on Thursday during the company’s Financial News ...

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Tricking the novel coronavirus with a fake "handshake"

Scientists develop peptides that could inactivate coronavirus

26-Feb-2021 - Fool the novel coronavirus once and it can't cause infection of cells, new research suggests. Scientists have developed protein fragments - called peptides - that fit snugly into a groove on the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein that it would normally use to access a host cell. These peptides effectively ...

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On the line: Watching nanoparticles get in shape

New method could advance next-generation applications in medicine, cosmetics, and petroleum recovery

26-Feb-2021 - Liquid structures - liquid droplets that maintain a specific shape - are useful for a variety of applications, from food processing to cosmetics, medicine, and even petroleum extraction, but researchers have yet to tap into these exciting new materials' full potential because not much is known ...

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