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New Approach to Cultured Meat 🧫🥩🔬

Using techniques developed for regenerative medicine, @UTokyo_News_en researchers succeeded in culturing millimeter-sized chunks of meat that mimic both the texture and mouthfeel of steak.

Source: @nature

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Source: @biorxivpreprint

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Improving the Efficiency of CRISPR 🧬🧫🔬

Researchers from @unibern and @ucddublin developed a new reporter system to reveal that a simple and cheap pharmacological inhibition of a step in the DNA repair pathway (DNA-PKcs) can significantly boost the efficiency of CRISPR-del.

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First Vaccine to Fully Immunize Against Malaria Builds on RNA Technology 💉🦠🧬

Researchers have invented a promising new blueprint for an effective vaccine, with properties similar to the novel RNA-based vaccine for Covid.

🌐: @AcademicTimes
Author: Monisha Ravisetti

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@MIT Researchers Identify Mutations Key to Antibiotic Resistance 🔬🧬💊

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) identified a class of mutations that aid bacteria in developing resistance.

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Source: @WIONews

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Hospitalizations and Death Risk Cut Dramatically by COVID Vaccines 🏥💉📉

In a study that covered the entire Scottish population, it was found that two approved COVID vaccines in the UK were effective in restricting the scope of infection.

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🌐: @ScienceMagazine
Author: @NewsfromScience

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Scientists Have ‘Conversation’ with People During Lucid Dreams 🧠😴💭

Researchers had “conversations” involving questions and math problems with lucid dreamers. The findings suggest that people can receive and process complex external information while sleeping.

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Source: @MPI_for_DB
Author: @e_zaccarella

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Human Brain Mapping: How the Brain Processes Sign Language 🧠🧬🤘🏻

Studies from the Max Planck Institute showed Broca’s area, present in the frontal brain of the left hemisphere, is responsible for the processing of sign language as well as spoken language.

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Source: @FierceBiotech
Author: @FierceBiotech

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mRNA Vaccine Able to Reprogram the Immune System to Shrink Tumor Cells 🧬💉🦠

Scientists have shown that an mRNA vaccine was able to reprogram the immune system to shrink tumor cells and prevent them from spreading.

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Cone Snail Venom Shows Promise as Malaria Treatment 🐌💊🦠

A team of researchers from @FloridaAtlantic published about the effectiveness of conotoxins as a treatment for malaria.

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Source: @ElsevierConnect

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Authors on twitter: @decarvalho_lab

Other Affiliations: @UofT @usponline @UnivRennes1

Source: @CellPressNews

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Epigenetic Therapy Boosts T-Cells to Kill Cancer Cells 🧬🧫🦠

Researchers from @pmcancercentre developed a method to create “super soldiers” of white blood cells to boost the immune system's anti-tumor response.

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Source: @UniofNottingham

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New Antiviral Drug Identified for COVID-19 Treatment 💊💉🔬

@UniofNottingham researchers have identified a plant based antiviral drug, named thapsigargin, triggers a highly effective innate immune response against COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses.

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Source: @nresearchnews
Author: @goetheuni

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3D Structure of Eye-Lens Protein 👁 🧪🔬

Goethe University (@goetheuni) researchers found that chemical bonds within the eye-lens protein gamma-B crystallin hold the protein together and are important for the function of the protein within the lens.