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FAU Researchers Identify Potential Target for Developing New Antibiotics

Florida Atlantic University researchers have identified a unique mechanism in bacteria that has the potential to serve as a target for developing new antibiotics for diseases such as AIDS and soft tissue infections including respiratory and urogenital tracts, which are currently difficult to treat. The results of these findings were [...]

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Sequencing method can help scientists conduct in-depth analyses of clinically relevant single cells

Biologists and geneticists have long sought to analyze profiles of genes at the single cell level but technology limitations have only allowed a view from afar until now. Full-Length mRNA-Seq from single cell levels of RNA and individual circulating tumor cells, published in Nature Biotechnology, shows for the first time [...]

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Potent New Compound Virtually Eliminates HIV in Cell Culture

A new study by Scripps Florida and VGTI scientists shows, in cell culture, a natural compound can virtually eliminate human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in infected cells. The compound defines a novel class of HIV anti-viral drugs endowed with the capacity to repress viral replication in acutely and chronically [...]

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