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Scientists Trace Crop Viruses Back to the Last Ice Age
1+ hour, 42+ min ago (476+ words) Scientists Trace Crop Viruses Back to the Last Ice Age'Technology Networks...
Coronaviruses Rewire Human Cells To Replicate Faster
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (248+ words) In the last 25 years, the world has witnessed three major outbreaks of coronavirus respiratory diseases that have been passed from animals to humans: SARS-CoV-1 in 2002, MERS in 2012, and SARS-CoV-2 in 2019. While the first two caused epidemics, SARS-CoV-2 triggered a pandemic…...
Raw Date Palm Sap Consumption Linked to Emerging Zoonotic Virus
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (248+ words) All five patients had recently consumed raw date-palm sap'a sweet liquid also enjoyed by bats, especially during winter months'and a known vector for Nipah infections in Bangladesh. Bats are the natural reservoir of numerous known and novel zoonotic viruses, including…...
What Safeguards Are Needed as GenAI Becomes More Embedded in R&D?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (533+ words) Artificial intelligence is increasingly being adopted in the life sciences, as scientists seek out support and alternative approaches to the time-consuming methods of traditional research. Generative AI (GenAI) tools are now routinely being implemented into R&D workflows in order…...
Safeguarding HPLC System Operation
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (137+ words) Designed to monitor up to two HPLC pump feed lines simultaneously, the Solvent Line Monitor non-invasively checks the status of liquid flows and will give an alarm and stop operation if any gas ... The presence of undissolved gas microbubbles can…...
How Can Viruses Be Harnessed for Good?
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (536+ words) In light of the growing risk of antibiotic resistance, scientists have revisited the century-old practice of phage therapy, which harnesses viruses to attack disease-causing bacteria. However, utilizing human viruses for human disease is a much newer concept, yet advances in…...
The Hidden World of Bacteriophages: Viruses That Shape Our Health
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (537+ words) Bacteriophages are viruses that selectively target and kill bacteria. They are abundant, commonly occurring natural entities that play crucial roles in regulating bacterial populations and influencing microbial ecosystems, including human health. Bacteriophages (or phages) are viruses that selectively target and…...