New approach could offer a more accurate way to evaluate donor kidney quality
A new way to evaluate the quality of kidneys before transplantation could one day help increase the number of usable donor kidneys. The method uses...
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Study highlights importance of positive and negative selection in evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects cells by binding to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) sites on epithelial cells. This is mediated by the...
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Optimizing bioprocessing with Raman spectroscopy
Can you explain how spectroscopy can be used for bioprocessing? I can certainly offer some common examples, but there are too many applications to list...
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Green seaweed extract exhibits anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity in vitro
Currently available antiviral drugs for the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are neither broadly accepted nor highly effective. Therefore, there is a pressing need...
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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz participates in new Collaborative Research Center
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the establishment of a new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) in the field of materials science, in which Johannes...
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Study reveals molecular architecture of fungal cell walls and structural responses to stress
In a new study published in Nature Communications, Associate Professor Tuo Wang and his research team from the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University...
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Interactions between SARS-CoV-2 S protein and ACE2 receptor using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is initiated by an interaction between the human angiotensin-converting enzyme type 2 (ACE2) receptor and the SARS-CoV-2...
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Development of SARS-CoV-2 detection platform using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
The current focus for disease management against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is vaccination. However, rapid diagnosis of variants is still pivotal for...
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Identification of novel nanobodies to specifically target SARS-CoV-2 replication protein
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused over five million deaths and forced many countries into economic crises through costly restrictions such as social distancing,...
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Non-invasive optical probe reveals the complex changes in tumors after immunotherapy
Johns Hopkins University engineers are the first to use a non-invasive optical probe to understand the complex changes in tumors after immunotherapy, a treatment that...
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New technology shows great promise for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
A technology developed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) shows great promise for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms arise, potentially changing the...
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RedShift BioAnalytics Celebrates Opening of StructIR Scientific Services Lab with the Launch of the StructIR Lab Grant Program
RedShift BioAnalytics (RedShiftBio), a company providing next-generation platform technology enabling measurements of previously undetectable structure changes in biomolecules, announced the opening of their scientific services...