When it comes to how we experience, interact with, and navigate our world, timing is everything. And new research in mice suggests that a specific set of cells is fundamental to how we learn complex behaviors that rely on timing. The discovery by a team from the University of Utah in the US could eventually … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 public domain Years after questions were raised about their integrity, two of the University of Minnesota’s most prominent scientific discoveries have been retracted in the space of one week: one that offered hope for the therapeutic potential of stem cells and the other that offered a promising path to treating Alzheimer’s disease. The … Read more
Years after questions were raised about their integrity, two of the University of Minnesota’s most prominent scientific discoveries have been retracted within a week: one that offered hope for the therapeutic potential of stem cells and another that offered a promising path to treating Alzheimer’s disease. The studies are more than a decade old and … Read more
Composite image of fluorescently labeled nuclei in each cell of five different C. elegans, captured in the Advanced Light Microscopy Unit at the CRG. Credit: Jeremy Vicencio, Nadia Halidi/Centro de Regulación Genómica Why do some people live longer than others? The genes in our DNA sequence are important and help prevent disease or maintain general … Read more
Researchers at the Broad Institute have improved gene editing to efficiently insert entire genes into human cells, offering potential for single-gene therapies for diseases such as cystic fibrosis. This method combines prime editing with new enzymes to improve editing efficiency, potentially revolutionizing gene therapy. The gene editing technique uses primary editors and advanced enzymes known … Read more
Cartoon summary of experiential age-related DNA methylation programs delineating longevity versus malignancy among T cells. Credit: Nature aging (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43587-024-00649-5 While most cell types experience functional decline after years of proliferation and replication, T cells can proliferate seemingly indefinitely and without damage. Scientists from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of Minnesota … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Credit: AI-generated image × close to Credit: AI-generated image Scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have improved a gene-editing technology that is now capable of inserting or replacing entire genes in the genomes of human cells efficiently … Read more
Researchers at the University of Houston, led by Navin Varadarajan, have discovered a new subset of T cells, called CD8-fit, that are associated with improved outcomes in T cell therapies for cancer. Using a combination of the TIMING method and single-cell RNA sequencing, the team identified a molecular signature in these T cells that correlates … Read more
Sign up for our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up for our free IndyTech newsletter EWithin six seconds, a top-secret printing facility in a factory on the northern outskirts of Stockholm produces sheets worth thousands of euros each. Each one contains 108 miniature solar cells that will soon find their … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication proofread OK! by DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) A team led by Professor Jongmin Choi from the Department of Energy Science and Engineering has developed a PbS quantum dot that can quickly improve the electrical conductivity of solar cells. The findings … Read more