What it means to be conscious is more than just a philosophical question. Researchers continue to investigate how conscious experience arises from the electrochemical activity of the human brain. The answer has important implications for…
Researchers at CÚRAM have this week published an interdisciplinary framework that enables the development of extracellular matrix-inspired hydrogels for biomedical applications.
An extracellular matrix (ECM) is a three-dimensional cementing…
Lymphomas are blood cancers that often start from lymph nodes. Lymph nodes contain not only hematopoietic cells, mainly B- and T-lymphoid cells, but also non-hematopoietic cells (NHCs), also called stromal cells. We know from previous…
MENLO PARK, Calif., April 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, today announced an expanded research collaboration with Children’s Mercy Kansas City,…
In two publications in Nature Medicine, a European-Israeli team of researchers show how major disturbances occur in the gut microbiome of patients suffering from heart disease. Given this latest evidence from microbiome research, one of the…
Humans and fruit flies respond to many of the same tastes -- sweet, salty, bitter and so on. The receptors that identify these substances, however, are very different between us and insects. Except when it comes to sour.
In a new study,…
The microbial inhabitants of the human body, collectively known as the "human microbiome," play an integral role in maintaining the health of the body. These microbes often reside in harmony, while also aiding normal physiological…
However, there are no well-established methods to quantify the material properties of these protein droplets. The novel technique developed by the study team, efficiently ‘Fault in the separation of proteins into small oil-like droplets…