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Tomatoes Offer Affordable Source of Parkinson's Disease Drug

Dec. 9, 2020 — Scientists have produced a tomato enriched in the Parkinson's disease drug L-DOPA in what could become a new, affordable source of one of the world's essential ...

Using Targeted Microbubbles to Administer Toxic Cancer Drugs

Dec. 8, 2020 — New research has shown how microbubbles carrying powerful cancer drugs can be guided to the site of a tumor using antibodies. Microbubbles are small manufactured spheres half the size of a red blood ...

The World's First DNA 'Tricorder' in Your Pocket

Dec. 7, 2020 — Scientists have built the first mobile genome sequence analyzer, making DNA analysis portable and accessible anywhere in the ...

Restoring a Rudimentary Form of Vision in the Blind

Dec. 3, 2020 — Restoration of vision in blind people through a brain implant is on the verge of becoming reality. Recent discoveries show that newly developed high-resolution implants in the visual cortex make it ...

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Biofriendly Protocells Pump Up Blood Vessels

Nov. 20, 2020 — Researchers have prepared synthetic protocells coated in red blood cell fragments for use as nitric oxide generating bio-bots within blood ...

Researchers Identify Features That Could Make Someone a Virus Super-Spreader

Nov. 19, 2020 — Researchers used computer-generated models to numerically simulate sneezes in different types of people and determine associations between people's ...

New Effective and Safe Antifungal Isolated from Sea Squirt Microbiome

Nov. 19, 2020 — By combing the ocean for antimicrobials, scientists have discovered a new antifungal compound that efficiently targets multi-drug-resistant strains of deadly fungi without toxic side effects in ...

A Pressure Sensor at Your Fingertips

Nov. 19, 2020 — Researchers have developed an ultrathin pressure sensor that can be attached directly to the skin. It can measure how fingers interact with objects to produce useful data for medical and ...

Novel Magnetic Spray Transforms Objects Into Millirobots for Biomedical Applications

Nov. 18, 2020 — An easy way to make millirobots by coating objects with a glue-like magnetic spray has been developed. Driven by the magnetic field, the coated ...

Studies Focus on SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Domestic Cats, Pigs

Nov. 18, 2020 — Two recently published studies include important findings related to SARS-CoV-2 transmission and the COVID-19 pandemic: Domestic cats can be asymptomatic carriers of SARS-CoV-2, but pigs are unlikely ...

3D Bioprinted Heart Provides New Tool for Surgeons

Nov. 18, 2020 — Surgeons will soon have a powerful new tool for planning and practice with the creation of the first full-sized 3D bioprinted model of the human ...

Llama Nanobodies Could Be a Powerful Weapon Against COVID-19

Nov. 5, 2020 — Researchers report a new method to extract tiny but extremely powerful SARS-CoV-2 antibody fragments from llamas, which could be fashioned into inhalable therapeutics with the potential to prevent ...

'Monster Tumors' Could Offer New Glimpse at Human Development

Nov. 4, 2020 — Finding just the right model to study human development -- from the early embryonic stage onward -- has been a challenge for scientists over the last decade. Now, bioengineers have homed in on an ...

Black Soldier Fly Larvae as Protein Alternative for Hungry Humans

Oct. 29, 2020 — Black soldier fly larvae contains more zinc and iron than lean meat and its calcium content is higher than milk. Less than half a hectare of black soldier fly larvae can produce more protein than ...