Affinity maturation in germinal centres (GCs) diversifies the B cell response and results in antibodies with improved antigen binding. However, antibodies generated early in a response can reshape ongoing GC selection, potentially altering which…
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Synergistic combinatorial anticancer potential of Tamoxifen with Naringin and Diosmetin in MCF-7 breast cancer cells and their liposomal delivery
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A Tiny Antibody Just Crushed the Coronavirus’s Secret Weak Spot
Llama antibodies clamp the coronavirus shut at its weakest spot—leaving the virus powerless to mutate or infect. Researchers have identified a special type of small antibody that offers strong protection against a wide variety of SARS-related…
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Scaling RNAi therapeutics for honeybee health with the Hydrocycler²
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SIGN INHoneybees are vital to global food security, yet colony collapse threatens…
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Babies brains’ can follow a beat as soon as they’re born
For more than a century, psychologists thought that the infant experience was, as the psychologist and philosopher William James famously put it, a “blooming, buzzing confusion.” But new research suggests babies are born with a…
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A bonobo’s imaginary tea party suggests apes can play pretend
Humans may not be the only primates with the power to imagine. During a make-believe tea party, a bonobo named Kanzi kept track of invisible juice and imaginary grapes, researchers report February 5 in Science.
The findings add to a…
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Reprogrammed neutrophils promote tumor growth
Predicting tumor progression is one of the major challenges in oncology. Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have discovered that neutrophils, a type of immune cell, undergo…
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Cannabis Beverages Could Cut Alcohol Use
Can cannabis-infused drinks help serve as substitutes for alcohol? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the growing…
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Fire may have altered human DNA
Humanity’s relationship with fire is unique across all of evolutionary…
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Scientists Found a Way to Study Life Before Its First Known Ancestor
Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor. Every living organism on Earth can be traced back to a single shared ancestor that existed about…
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