The smelly smell of self-recognition?
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Academics have demonstrated that geckos can differentiate their own smell from the skin and feces of other geckos. […]
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Could cerebrospinal fluid interactions in the brain help us understand neurodevelopmental conditions?
BioTechniques News Annie Coulson Researchers have demonstrated novel cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in the brain, which could hold promise for the future of […]
Seasonal changes may mean we need more sleep in winter
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Whilst humans don’t hibernate, a new study suggests seasonal sleep cycle variation means we require more sleep in […]
Researchers reversibly activate drug molecules with visible green light
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Photosensitive drug molecules that can be activated by visible green light could lead to novel precision therapeutics to […]
Functional MRI reveals how time in space changes our brains
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Our brains are optimized to live with gravity, but how does it adapt to the different laws of […]
Rare neurological disorder likely caused by insufficient cellular recycling
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi A new study demonstrates how mutations in both copies of the gene responsible for cellular recycling, ATG4D, underlie […]
Blood-infused hydrogel deceives mosquitoes in behavior studies
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby A 3D-printed blood-infused hydrogel patch could eliminate the need for live volunteers to study how mosquitoes transmit disease. […]
Have you met AI? The wingman that identifies physiological synchrony underlying social interactions
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Artificial intelligence can tell what type of conversation two people are having based on physiological data, offering insight […]
Tailoring LC-MS platforms for specific applications in drug design and detection
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry is a popular analytical tool as liquid chromatography separates different substances present […]
Cryo-EM reveals an amyloid protein structure associated with a rare disease
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Solving the structure of an amyloid protein gives new insight into limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 3 (LGMD D3) […]
Computational modeling takes the guesswork out of developing injectable hydrogels
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Researchers have developed a computational framework to predict the properties of granular hydrogel matrices. A granular hydrogel […]
Magnetic tweezers reveal NIHCOLE DNA repair mechanism
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Scientists used magnetic tweezers to reveal how the RNA molecule ‘NIHCOLE’ repairs cell damage, hindering cancer treatments such […]
Could new gut insight help understand graft-versus-host disease?
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi New research suggests a mechanism – and potential pharmacological treatment – for microbiome changes that affect the severity […]
Harnessing the power of antimicrobial peptides
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi Researchers have developed an antimicrobial material that can be used to both treat and prevent infections, helping to […]
Grant awarded to create training materials for volume electron microscopy
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby An international team of scientists has received a 2-year grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CA, USA) to […]
Rewriting oxytocin’s love story using CRISPR
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi The neurohormone traditionally labeled the ‘love hormone’ may have just lost that title as new research finds that […]
The evolutionary balancing act that produced both advanced cognition and cognitive disease in humans
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi New research finds patterns of compensatory evolution in human-accelerated regions of the genome, which suggest these regions could […]
Changing the brain: nanocapsule therapy edits the Alzheimer’s gene
BioTechniques News Aisha Al-Janabi In a recent study, researchers developed a nanocapsule gene therapy that can edit an Alzheimer’s-associated gene in mice, […]
Computational tool ESPRESSO discovers and quantifies RNA isoforms
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby ESPRESSO overcomes the limitations of error-prone long-read RNA sequencing, providing a useful resource to study transcriptome variation. Long-read […]
Could attaching cytokines to T cells enable CAR-T cell therapies for solid tumors?
BioTechniques News Beatrice Bowlby Researchers have developed a new method of locally delivering cytokines alongside T cells that could lead to improved […]