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• Scripps receives $2 million donation

  The Esther B. O’Keeffe Charitable Foundation has made a $2 million donation to The Scripps Research Institute to fund biomedical research and education on the Florida campus. In recognition of the gift, the Founders Room and the adjoining board room at Scripps Florida have been named the Esther B. O’Keeffe [...]

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• Integrated chemical chip developed

  Klas Tybrandt, doctoral student in Organic Electronics at Linköping University, Sweden, has developed an integrated chemical chip. The results have just been published as Logic gates based on ion transistors in Nature Communications.

  The Organic Electronics research group at Linköping University previously developed ion transistors for transport of both positive and [...]

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• Nanoparticles cut off ‘addicted’ tumors from source of their survival

  Yale biologists and engineers have designed drug-loaded nanoparticles that target the soft underbelly of many types of cancer — a tiny gene product that tumors depend upon to replicate and survive.

  The novel therapy successfully stopped lymphoma in mice when injected directly into tumors, the researchers report in the Proceedings of [...]

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• Fast, supersensitive biosensor developed

  A whole new class of biosensor that can detect exceptionally small traces of contaminants in liquids in just 40 minutes has been developed by a University of New South Wales-led team of researchers.

  Known as a biochemiresistor, it meets a long-standing challenge to create a sensor that is not only super-sensitive [...]

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• Single gene that simultaneously controls inflammation, accelerated aging and cancer

  “This was certainly an unexpected finding,” said principal investigator Robert J. Schneider, PhD, the Albert Sabin Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis, associate director for translational research and co-director of the Breast Cancer Program at NYU Langone Medical Center. “It is rather uncommon for one gene to have two very different and [...]

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• Canadian research team makes safe iPS cells by the millions

  University of Calgary researchers Derrick Rancourt, PhD, and Roman Krawetz, PhD, have perfected a new bioreactor technology that allows them to make millions of pluripotent stem cells much more quickly than ever before. “The even better news is, we made these stem cells without introducing the cancer gene at all,” [...]

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• Thioridazine destroys human cancer stem cells but not healthy ones

  A team of scientists at McMaster University has discovered that the drug thioridazine successfully kills cancer stem cells in humans while avoiding the toxic side-effects of chemotherapy and radiation.

  “The unusual aspect of our finding is the way this human-ready drug actually kills cancer stem cells – by changing them into [...]

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• Fountain of Youth for Stem Cells

  Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have uncovered a series of biological events that implicate the stem cells’ surroundings, known as their “niche,” as the culprit in loss of stem cells due to aging. Their findings, published in Nature as The let-7–Imp axis regulates ageing of the [...]

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• Encoding, Storing and Erasing Data within the DNA of Living Cells

  “It took us three years and 750 tries to make it work, but we finally did it,” said Jerome Bonnet, PhD, of his latest research, Rewritable digital data storage in live cells via engineered control of recombination directionality, which describes a method for repeatedly encoding, storing and erasing digital data [...]

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• Max Planck Florida Institute says Sensory Experience is Good for the Aging Brain

  Despite a long-held scientific belief that much of the neural circuitry is fixed by the time of adolescence, a new study shows that changes in sensory experience can cause massive rewiring of the brain, even as one ages. In addition, the study found that this rewiring involves fibers that supply [...]

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