Category: 5. Biology

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  • Biliary elimination of cholesterol can be modulated by hepatocyte mitochondrial Aquaporin-8 in mice

  • Shi, Q., Chen, J., Zou, X. & Tang, X. Intracellular cholesterol synthesis and transport. Front. Cell. Dev. Biol. 10, 819281. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2022.819281 (2022).

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  • Organoids capture brain growth variation

    Human cerebral cortex organoids recapitulate key milestones of corticogenesis, but whether they reproduce interindividual variability in brain development, reflecting brain growth in individual donors, remains unclear. In a paper published in…

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  • A Tiny Antibody Just Crushed the Coronavirus’s Secret Weak Spot

    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

    Scaling RNAi therapeutics for honeybee health with the Hydrocycler²

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    Honeybees 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

    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

    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.

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  • Reprogrammed neutrophils promote tumor growth

    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

    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

    Fire may have altered human DNA

    Humanity’s relationship with fire is unique across all of evolutionary…

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