A team of researchers has succeeded in using an electric current to directly control gene expression for the first time.…
New technology enables fast protein synthesis
Chemists have developed a protocol to rapidly produce protein chains up to 164 amino acids long. The flow-based technology could…
Gold mining with mercury poses health threats for miles downstream
Small-scale gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon poses a health hazard not only to the miners and communities near where…
Benefits of social networks to disaster response questioned
Faced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might save lives, fail to alert each other to danger…
Breaking up is hard to do (especially for sex chromosomes)
A team of scientists has discovered how the X and Y chromosomes find one another, break, and recombine during meiosis…
Heart surgery stalled as COVID-19 spread
Two recent journal articles explore how hospitals worldwide scaled back on heart surgeries as the pandemic hit, and how they…
Imaging reveals unexpected contractions in the human placenta
High-resolution imaging of the human placenta provides new insights into blood circulation patterns that are crucial for fetal development, according…
Researchers identify mechanisms that make skin a protective barrier
A research team has identified one of the mechanisms that establish the skin as a protective barrier, a breakthrough that…
Combination therapy well-tolerated and highly effective for patients with IDH1-mutated AML
A combination therapy of ivosenidib (IVO) plus venetoclax (VEN) with or without azacitidine (AZA) was found to be effective against…
Immune landscape of multiple brain cancers charted
A new study has profiled, in a sweeping comparative analysis, the distinct immune landscapes of tumors that arise in the…