Medicine Scientists Use Bacteria As Micro-3D Printers (Medicine) 15 Nov 2020 Technique creates highly customised structures that could be used in regenerative Medicine. https://youtu.be/U6mE9cRyZfU A team at Aalto University has used bacteria to produce intricately designed three-dimensional objects made of nanocellulose.…
Medicine 3D Printed Stents That Treat Inflammation (Medicine) 15 Nov 2020 POSTECH Professor Dong-Woo Cho’s research team develops bioink-loaded esophageal stents for treating radiation esophagitis. Radiation esophagitis, characterized by the inflammation of the esophagus, is the most common acute adverse effect…
Uncategorized Three High-redshift Quasars Detected by Chandra (Astronomy) 15 Nov 2020 Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft, astronomers have discovered three new ultraviolet-bright radio-quiet quasars at high redshift and measured their basic X-ray properties. The newly found quasi-stellar object turns out to be…
Uncategorized Light, Liposomes, Action: Researchers Show Safer, More Targeted Way to Deliver CRISPR Gene Therapy (Medicine) 15 Nov 2020 Biomedical researchers have come up with a novel way to use a beam of light to deliver CRISPR gene therapy molecules targeting illnesses. Liposomes, which are spherical fat molecules found…
Food Rice Has Many Fathers But Only Two Mothers (Food) 15 Nov 2020 Researchers investigating the heritage of thousands of rice varieties have identified just two distinct maternal lineages, a discovery which could help address the issue of global food security. ©Stockimage University…
Chemistry Chemists Discover The Structure of a Key Coronavirus Protein (Chemistry) 15 Nov 202015 Nov 2020 The protein, which acts as an ion channel, could be a target for new drugs against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. MIT chemists have determined the molecular structure of a protein found…
Planetary Science Why Do Some People Believe The Earth is Flat? (Planetary Science) 15 Nov 2020 "Although scientific evidence says the Earth is a sphere orbiting the Sun, there are some people around who still think our planet is flat... and social media plays a role",…
