NASA Artemis I Wet Dress Rehearsal Update: Final Umbilical Preparations Complete
A view of the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft just before sunrise at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 23,…
Webb Space Telescope’s Coldest Instrument Reaches Operating Temperature Below Minus 447° F
In this illustration, the multilayered sunshield on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope stretches out beneath the observatory’s honeycomb mirror. The sunshield is the first step in cooling down Webb’s infrared…
From home safety and accessibility, to social support, community services and paid in-home help, National Poll on Healthy Aging shows varied preparation — ScienceDaily
The vast majority of people over 50 say it’s important that they keep living in their current homes for as long as possible. But a new poll shows many of…
A single inhaled dose treated or even prevented infection by COVID-19 and its variants — ScienceDaily
A new protein-based antiviral nasal spray developed by researchers at Northwestern University, University of Washington and Washington University at St. Louis is being advanced toward Phase I human clinical trials…
Nanodelivery of nucleic acids | Nature Reviews Methods Primers
Alvarez, E. M. et al. The global burden of adolescent and young adult cancer in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Oncol. 23,…
Effect of piezocision procedure in levelling and alignment stage of fixed orthodontic treatment: a randomized clinical trial
Study design This two-arm parallel-group randomized clinical trial was carried out at the Specialist Orthodontic Clinic, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Ethical consideration Ethical approval has been obtained from the review board…
Light triggered nanoscale biolistics for efficient intracellular delivery of functional macromolecules in mammalian cells
Design, characterization, and light-triggered activation of NBs The NB design consists of a thermal core particle that is surrounded by smaller nanoparticles that act as nanoprojectiles upon light-triggered activation (Fig. 2a).…
Synthetic biology for the engineering of complex wine yeast communities
Pretorius, I. S. Tasting the terroir of wine yeast innovation. FEMS Yeast Res. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsyr/foz084 (2020). Bartle, L., Sumby, K., Sundstrom, J. & Jiranek, V. The microbial challenge of winemaking: yeast-bacteria…
Mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomal microRNA-182-5p alleviates myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury by targeting GSDMD in mice
Ethics statement Animal experiments were conducted in compliance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animal (8th Edition, National Institute of Health, 2011) and with the approval…
Immortality of Germline Cells and the Function of “Junk DNA”
MIT biology professor Yukiko Yamashita has spent much of her career exploring how asymmetrical cell divisions occur. This type of cell division allows cells to differentiate into different types of…
