In the quest to develop a vaccine that triggers the immune system to prevent HIV infection, researchers have focused on
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Researchers explain how viral protein promotes deadly infection by Nipah and Hendra viruses
Researchers have identified how a viral protein, which plays a major role in causing deadly Nipah and Hendra virus infections,
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New nanoparticles wait to release drugs, target infection
Current WSU research shows stimuli-responsive nanoparticles can specifically target infections to simultaneously prevent the spread of bacteria and reduce the
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Researchers are first to sequence rare bacteria that causes rampant tooth decay
Fruit fly larvae can taste ribonucleosides, the building blocks of gene transcripts, according to a new study publishing on August
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Finding the proteins that unpack DNA
A new method allows researchers to systematically identify specialized proteins that unpack DNA inside the nucleus of a cell, making
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Potential new drug for two life-threatening diseases: New plant-based drug could provide treatment for two deadly tropical diseases
Derived from nature, a potential new drug to treat two life-threatening tropical diseases has been discovered as a result of
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Ten thousand bursting genes: Genes marked with colorful barcodes give precise, instantaneous snapshots of single cells
A breakthrough new technique enables scientists to image 10,421 genes at once within individual cells. The work was done in
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Avoiding catastrophe: Yeast study reveals clues to maintaining genome size: Yeast cells reveal clues to agressive childhood kidney cancer
As cells divide, they must accurately split their DNA between the two daughter cells or risk having an uneven number
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Drowsy worms offer new insights into the neuroscience of sleep
A good night of sleep entails about eight hours of blissful immobility — a state of near paralysis that, though
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Far-red fluorescent silk can kill harmful bacteria as biomedical and environmental remedy
A silk hybrid material attacks bacteria when illuminated by a green light, thanks to a far-red fluorescent protein researchers transferred
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