A Deep-Sea Bacterium Against Climate Change
An organism that lives at the bottom of the ocean could help in the fight against climate change. The bacterium, Thiomicrospira crunogena, lives in extremely hot...
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Shimadzu Presents a New Device for Brain-Function Imaging
Shimadzu has launched the LABNIRS, a functional Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (fNIRS) system with high sensitivity and performance, easy operation and great potential for scalability. The...
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Antibody-Activated Leukemia Cells Kill Their Sisters
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has found a way to transform leukemia cells in Natural Killers (NK) that attack other...
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A Non-Toxic DNA Stain for Super Resolution Microscopy
Scientists from the Échole Polytechnique Fédérale de Laussane (EFPL) have created a new DNA stain that can be used in live cells. The far-red DNA stain, called...
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MinION Sequences Thousands of Isoforms of the Most Complex Gene Known
Scientists from University of Connecticut have partnered with Oxford Nanopore Technologies to sequence all possible isoforms of the most complex gene known, Down Syndrome cell adhesion molecule...
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Insulator Defects Observable by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have characterized individual defects in an insulator using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)....
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A Glowing Reporter for DNA Methylation in Single Cells
Researchers at MIT and Whitehead Institute in Cambridge have designed the first reporter for DNA methylation at the level of individual cells. The method allows to follow...
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Micromotors that Swim and Sequester Carbon Dioxide
Researchers from UC San Diego have developed an innovative tool to fight climate change. In their study, published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the team...
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