Engineered E. coli use direct, cell-to-cell contact to grow into new structures

Plant a seed and, if the conditions are right, the seed grows. The process seems simple enough at first glance and is something many of us may feel like we learned in elementary school.

Bacteria borrow jumbo phages to spread their own defenses

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...
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'Clearly something else is happening': Why bacteria aren't the only explanation for stomach cancer

For doctors in training, death becomes a familiar part of hospital life—but every so often, the loss of one patient changes everything. Scientia Associate Professor Natalia Castaño Rodríguez was a ...
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Central Texas high school seniors sound off on cell phone ban: ‘There’s a lot more conversation in class’

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Cell phones have officially been banned in classrooms during this legislative session, and all public schools have their own rules on what to do with the phones, like lockers or ...
Business Insider

Excellergy Debuts with $70 Million Series A Financing to Advance First-in-Class Portfolio of Trifunctional Effector Cell Response Inhibitors (ECRIs) for Complete Allergic Control

-Redefining Allergy Treatment with New Class of Trifunctional ECRIs designed to deliver powerful efficacy, rapid relief and complete control of allergic responses by targeting the effector cell - ...
The Conversation

How does your immune system stay balanced? A Nobel Prize-winning answer

Aimee Pugh Bernard is affiliated with Immunize Colorado as a volunteer and unpaid board member. Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of ...
The Lancet

A strategy to re-sensitise drug-resistant Gram-positive bacteria to oxazolidinone-class antibiotics

cState Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology (Incubation), Shenzhen Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shenzhen, China dApplied Oral Sciences and ...
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7 Investigates: Cell phone bans in Massachusetts schools

NEWTON, MASS. (WHDH) - Teachers at F.A. Day Middle School in Newton said students’ cell phones were always out, and it was becoming a problem. “It was all the time. Classrooms, hallways, bathrooms, ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

First-in-Class Rocatinlimab Aims to Rebalance T Cells in Atopic Dermatitis: Emma Guttman, MD, PhD

Emma Guttman, MD, PhD, discusses the promising potential of rocatinlimab in targeting the OX40-OX40 ligand pathway for atopic dermatitis treatment. Trial investigator Emma Guttman, MD, PhD, chair of ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

How Students Should Practice, In and Out of Class

L ectures are boring. Assignments are busy work. And all of that tuition is for this? When Justin Shaffer hears these kinds of complaints from students, he thinks they have a point. He also thinks ...
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A 7.7-Magnitude Earthquake Split the Ground—and Brought an Ancient Structure to the Surface

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An earthquake in central Myanmar unearthed an ancient structure that may be part of a royal “water palace ...
Medical Xpress

New protein interaction map sheds light on how brain cell communication breaks down in Alzheimer's disease

A new study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai offers one of the most comprehensive views yet of how brain cells interact in Alzheimer's disease, mapping protein networks that reveal ...