by American Chemical Society Apratoxin S4 (structure shown here) is effective against SARS-CoV-2 in human cells and could be a pan-viral therapeutic. Credit: Adapted from ACS Infectious Diseases 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.2c00008 More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, people are realizing that the “new normal” will probably involve learning to co-exist with SARS-CoV-2. Some treatments are available,...
The dressing could be applied to complex wounds such as venous ulcers, leg ulcers or foot ulcersFraunhofer IMWSVIEW 2 IMAGES If you’re trying to make a wound dressing that will be well-tolerated by the human body, you may be best off using human-derived materials. That’s the approach that German researchers have taken, creating a tropoelastin-based bandage. Tropoelastin...
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: FULLY ASSEMBLED SEND PACKAGES ARE RELEASED FROM THE CELL TO BE COLLECTED FOR GENE THERAPY. CREDIT: MCGOVERN INSTITUTE Cambridge, MA (August 19, 2021)—Researchers from MIT, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a new way to deliver...
by Patrick Galey Unlike the genome—the complete sequence of human genes that encode cellular life—the human proteome is constantly changing. Scientists on Thursday unveiled the most exhaustive database yet of the proteins that form the building blocks of life, in breakthrough observers said would “fundamentally change biological research”. Every cell in every living organism is triggered to...
There are billions of humans on this earth, and each of us is made up of trillions of cells. Just like every individual is unique, even genetically identical twins, scientists observe differences between the genetically identical cells in our bodies. Image credit: Giedt et al, “Single Cell Analysis of Drug Distribution by Intravital Imaging” via Wikipedia/CC...
