Nicoletta Lanese
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Century-old lung helps scientists trace measles back to now-eradicated cattle virus
For years, the lung sat in the basement of the Berlin Museum of Medical History along with hundreds of other ...
Zapping the brain with electrical pulses allows blind patients to ‘see’ letters
Scientists sent patterns of electricity coursing across people’s brains, coaxing their brains to see letters that weren’t there. The experiment ...
Battling antibiotic resistance by stopping evolution
One of the ways that bacteria evolve to become "antibiotic resistant" is by picking up free-floating genetic material from their environments. They ...
Zika virus could offer new way to attack deadly brain cancers
New research has revealed that the Zika virus breaks into brain cells by using a special molecular key, and scientists ...
What makes a murderer? MRI scans reveal reduced gray matter patterns in convicts
Kent Kiehl and his research team regularly park their long, white trailer just outside the doors of maximum-security prisons across the ...
Meet Garlic, China’s first ever cloned cat
Devastated by the death of his previous cat, Garlic, Huang [Yu] sought the services of biotechnology company Sinogene. The Beijing-based ...
This company wants to freeze your T cells for future cancer treatments. Experts call the idea ‘unproven’
A new cryopreservation bank offers customers the chance to stash away their T cells for use in future cancer treatments ...
Scientists extract ‘near-complete’ HIV genome from 50-year-old tissue sample found ‘sitting in a drawer’
Scientists extracted a near-complete HIV-1 genome from a lymph node that had been preserved in wax for more than 50 ...
Which is more important to the gut microbiome? Genetics or environment?
Genetics hold far more sway over the mouse microbiome than transient environmental exposures, researchers reported July 26 in Applied and ...
Human-monkey chimeras created in China in quest to grow transplantable human organs
An international team of researchers has created embryos containing both human and monkey cells, the Spanish newspaper El País reported July ...
