AI-Based Method Offers New Treatment Targets for Alzheimer s Disease azorobotics.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from azorobotics.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
New 4D Hydrogels can Change Shape in Response to Stimuli
Written by AZoMMar 2 2021
For a long time, tissue engineering has relied on geometrically static scaffolds that are seeded with cells in the laboratory to make new tissues and even organs.
4D hydrogel-based materials can undergo multiple conformational shape changes in response to environmental cues. Image Credit: Aixiang Ding.
Generally, the scaffolding material is a biodegradable polymer structure that is provided with cells, and if the cells are supplied with proper nutrients, then they develop into a tissue as the basic scaffold biodegrades. However, this model disregards the exceptionally dynamic morphological processes that form the basis of the natural growth of tissues.
Study reveals how cancer cells escape death by lymphocytes news-medical.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news-medical.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Passive Cooling System can Reduce Cooling and Heating Costs, Reduce CO2 Emissions
Written by AZoCleantechFeb 9 2021
Passive cooling is similar to the shade provided by trees, and this phenomenon has been around all the time.
Image Credit: University at Buffalo.
Lately, scientists have been investigating how a passive cooling technique called sky or radiative cooling can be turbo-charged with sun-blocking nanomaterials that remove heat away from the rooftops of buildings.
Although advances have been made, this environmentally friendly technology is not an ordinary thing, because investigators have struggled to increase the cooling capabilities of materials.
A new study, headed by engineers from the University at Buffalo (UB), has made considerable advancement in this field. Published in the
Targeting RNA splicing can activate antiviral immune pathways in triple negative breast cancers
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered how therapeutics targeting RNA splicing can activate antiviral immune pathways in triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) to trigger tumor cell death and signal the body s immune response.
A new study published in
Cell shows that endogenous mis-spliced RNA in tumor cells mimics an RNA virus, leading tumor cells to self-destruct as if fighting an infection. Researchers suggest this mechanism could open new avenues for turning on the immune system in aggressive cancers like TNBC. We know therapeutics that partially interfere with RNA splicing can have a very strong impact on tumor growth and progression, but the mechanisms of tumor killing are largely unknown. In this study, we discovered that these therapeutics are modulators of anti-tumor immunity, said Dr. Trey Westbrook, corresponding author of the study, executive director o