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Medicine Discovery Finds a Cellular Building Block Acts As a Gel, Not Liquid As Previously Believed (Medicine) 18 Dec 2020 Landmark discovery of the physical state of complex DNA and protein "packages"--called chromatin--in a cell's nucleus could lead to better understanding of diseases such as cancer. University of Alberta researchers…
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Medicine Earwax Could Be Used to Measure Glucose Levels (Medicine) 13 Dec 2020 An earwax self-sampling device could be used to measure chronic glucose levels, according to a study led by UCL and King’s College London researchers. ©UCL The pilot study, published in…
