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Could COVID-19 rapid antigen tests aid international border control measures?

A recent study has explored the use of rapid antigen testing for COVID-19 at borders to reduce community transmission, and concluded that it would be effective only at lower volumes of passenger traffic.

30 Apr 2021

Mass home screening for asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection unlikely to reduce transmission

Encouraging self-testing at home twice a week for all adults in England, and soon Scotland, is a misguided policy, unlikely to reduce transmission, warn public health experts in The BMJ today.

30 Apr 2021

Novel integrative genetic screening platform offers insights into role of DNA accessibility in cancer

In a new resource for the scientific community, published today in Nature Biotechnology, researchers in the lab of Neville Sanjana, PhD, at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) and New York University (NYU) developed CRISPR-sciATAC, a novel integrative genetic screening platform that jointly captures CRISPR gene perturbations and single-cell chromatin accessibility genome-wide.

30 Apr 2021

New study reveals mechanisms that result in lethal COVID-19

A new study is drawing the most detailed picture yet of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lung, revealing mechanisms that result in lethal COVID-19, and may explain long-term complications and show how COVID-19 differs from other infectious diseases.

30 Apr 2021

Researchers review materials used to design biosensors for SARS-CoV-2 detection

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is still causing a dramatic loss of human lives worldwide, constituting an unprecedented challenge for society, public health, and economy, to overcome. Currently, SARS-CoV-2 can be diagnosed in two different ways: i) antigen tests (point-of-care, POC) and ii) molecular tests (nucleic acid, RNA, or PCR-polymerase chain reaction).

30 Apr 2021

Multiple cycles through the dishwasher most effective at removing BPA from Tritan bottles

As part of a laboratory experiment, Rebecca Holmes examined water bottles that had been acquired from abroad expecting to find bisphenol A (BPA), a human-made component commonly found in polycarbonate plastics used to make consumer products.

30 Apr 2021

Primary care practitioners overestimate disease risks leading to over-diagnosis and overtreatment

Primary care practitioners often over-estimate the likelihood of a patient having a medical condition based on reported symptoms and laboratory test results.

29 Apr 2021

City of Hope initiates Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate if mushroom tablets could slow prostate cancer

City of Hope, a world-renowned independent research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases, is now recruiting patients for a Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate whether pills containing white button mushroom extract could regulate the immune system, affecting prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels to either remain stable or decline.

29 Apr 2021

New genetically encoded sensor helps detect drugs of abuse

A genetically encoded sensor to detect hallucinogenic compounds has been developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis. Named psychLight, the sensor could be used in discovering new treatments for mental illness, in neuroscience research and to detect drugs of abuse. The work is published April 28 in the journal Cell.

29 Apr 2021

Single protein could be a new target for delaying onset of aging symptoms in the brain

It is not every day that scientists come across a phenomenon so fundamental that it is observed across fruit flies, rodents and humans.

29 Apr 2021

Researchers discover how SARS-CoV-2 hijacks human cell machinery to blunt immune response

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered one way in which SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, hijacks human cell machinery to blunt the immune response, allowing it to establish infection, replicate and cause disease.

29 Apr 2021

New exosome-based therapeutic strategy to potentially treat late-stage colorectal cancer

In a recent discovery by University of Minnesota Medical School, researchers uncovered a new way to potentially target and treat late-stage colorectal cancer - a disease that kills more than 50,000 people each year in the United States.

29 Apr 2021

Texas A&M AgriLife receives grant to support research on bacteriophage therapy

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health, NIH, has awarded $2.5 million in grants to support research on bacteriophage therapy, and Texas A&M AgriLife Research is among the grant recipients.

29 Apr 2021

Immunocompromised children and young adults may experience prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection

Children and young adults with compromised immune systems, such as those undergoing cancer treatment, may experience a prolonged period of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and the extended duration of infection may increase the incidence of mutations.

29 Apr 2021

Researchers apply 'kitchen sink approach' to produce 16 high-quality reference genomes

The flightless kakapo of New Zealand is in trouble. The world's heaviest parrot--representing one of the most ancestral branches of the parrot family tree--is nearly extinct, with barely 200 adults plodding the underbrush of four small islands.

29 Apr 2021

New collaboration to study early detection of developmental differences in children

The University of Washington's School of Medicine Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine is collaborating with Illumina, Inc. and GeneDx, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BioReference Laboratories, Inc., an OPKO Health company, to study early detection of developmental differences in children.

29 Apr 2021

Laboratory News and Research

Could COVID-19 rapid antigen tests aid international border control measures?

Mass home screening for asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection unlikely to reduce transmission

Novel integrative genetic screening platform offers insights into role of DNA accessibility in cancer

New study reveals mechanisms that result in lethal COVID-19

Researchers review materials used to design biosensors for SARS-CoV-2 detection

Multiple cycles through the dishwasher most effective at removing BPA from Tritan bottles

Primary care practitioners overestimate disease risks leading to over-diagnosis and overtreatment

City of Hope initiates Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate if mushroom tablets could slow prostate cancer

New genetically encoded sensor helps detect drugs of abuse

Single protein could be a new target for delaying onset of aging symptoms in the brain

Researchers discover how SARS-CoV-2 hijacks human cell machinery to blunt immune response

New exosome-based therapeutic strategy to potentially treat late-stage colorectal cancer

Texas A&M AgriLife receives grant to support research on bacteriophage therapy

Immunocompromised children and young adults may experience prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection

Researchers apply 'kitchen sink approach' to produce 16 high-quality reference genomes

New collaboration to study early detection of developmental differences in children

Using light-activated 3D printing to manufacture self-healing hydrogels with complex architectures

Male bladder cancer vulnerability could be exploited to design new therapeutic strategies

SCAI releases expert consensus statement on best practices in cardiac catheterization lab

New method could be used to develop more effective treatments for cancer, metabolic disorders

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