An inexpensive device used by millions of people with diabetes could be adapted into a home DNA detector that enables individuals to perform home tests for viruses and bacteria in human body fluids, in food and in other substances, scientists are reporting in a new study. The report on this adaptation of the ubiquitous...
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Tweaking a gene makes muscles twice as strong
A team of researchers at EPFL, the University of Lausanne and the Salk Institute created super strong, marathon mice and nematodes by reducing the function of a natural inhibitor, suggesting treatments for age-related or genetically caused muscle degeneration are within reach. It turns out that a tiny inhibitor may be responsible for how strong...
New Technology Helps Fight Deadly Outbreaks
By Carrie Arnold, ISNS Contributor Inside Science News Service (ISNS) — Sequencing the DNA of outbreak-causing microbes is nothing new — but completing the entire process in a few short hours is. The simultaneous announcement from separate research teams in Germany and China on June 2 was remarkable not only because both independent groups...