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Mouse models show how Zika migrates into the placenta
11 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
In the models, the Zika virus was observed migrating from the bloodstream into the placenta, where it multiplied...
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Electron microscopy details infection mechanisms of coronaviruses
29 February 2016 | By Victoria White
High-resolution cryo-electron microscopy and supercomputing have now made it possible to analyse in detail the infection mechanisms of coronaviruses...
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TAxI holds promise as a carrier for spinal cord treatments
17 February 2016 | By Victoria White
The small peptide has been shown to be an effective at shuttling functional proteins into the spinal cord after a muscle injection...
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Novo Nordisk and UW to explore the role of the brain in obesity
3 November 2015 | By Victoria White
The collaboration aims to understand factors mediating brain control of blood glucose and appetite with the ultimate goal of developing new therapeutic agents for the treatment of diabetes and obesity...
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Disease recreated in mini-kidney organoids in the lab
23 October 2015 | By Victoria White
The work paves the way for personalised drug discovery for kidney disease...
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Researchers programme solitary yeast cells to talk to one another
1 July 2015 | By Victoria White
A team researchers has engineered yeast cells (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) that can "talk" to one another, using a versatile plant hormone called auxin...