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• Protein ‘Passport’ That Helps Nanoparticles Get Past Immune System

  The body’s immune system exists to identify and destroy foreign objects, whether they are bacteria, viruses, flecks of dirt or splinters. Unfortunately, nanoparticles designed to deliver drugs, and implanted devices like pacemakers or artificial joints, are just as foreign and subject to the same response.

  Now, researchers at the University of [...]

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• New clean coal technology

  It’s not biotech, but this could be important… When a team of Ohio State students worked around the clock for nine days straight recently, they weren’t pulling the typical college “all-nighters.” Instead, they were reaching a milestone in clean coal technology.

  For 203 continuous hours, they operated a scaled-down version of a [...]

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• Genome-wide imaging study identifies BCHE association with Alzheimer’s plaques

  A study, APOE and BCHE as modulators of cerebral amyloid deposition: a florbetapir PET genome-wide association study, combining genetic data with brain imaging, designed to identify genes associated with the amyloid plaque deposits found in Alzheimer’s disease patients, has not only identified the APOE gene — long associated with [...]

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• Molecules assemble in water, hint at origins of life

  The base pairs that hold together two pieces of RNA, the older cousin of DNA, are some of the most important molecular interactions in living cells. Many scientists believe that these base pairs were part of life from the very beginning and that RNA was one of the first polymers [...]

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• ‘Rhythm’ of protein folding encoded in RNA

  Your average musical melody doesn’t chug along at a single, mechanical speed. It mixes whole notes, quarter notes, sixteenth notes and so on to lay out a specific, complex rhythm. It looks like protein synthesis may work the same way.

  The sequence of events is elegant: proteins are assembled when ribosomes [...]

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• Florida Team Begins ISS Mission Biology Experiment

  Florida Institute of Technology researchers have won a prestigious grant enabling their biology experiment to travel on a flight to the International Space Station (ISS). Their proposal, “Self-Assembly in Biology and the Origin of Life (SABOL): A Study into Alzheimer’s,” was just one of eight proposals chosen by Space Florida [...]

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• Bioengineered ears that look and act like the real thing

  Cornell bioengineers and physicians have created an artificial ear that looks and acts like a natural ear, giving new hope to thousands of children born with a congenital deformity called microtia.

  In High-Fidelity Tissue Engineering of Patient-Specific Auricles for Reconstruction of Pediatric Microtia and Other Auricular Deformities, published in PLOS [...]

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