The nationwide experiment will initially include around 100,000 volunteers.
With multiple applications in biomedicine, the antibodies can now be made quickly, cheaply, and without the need for an alpaca or one of its relatives.
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A combination of imaging techniques allows researchers to observe subcellular processes within organisms.
In one of the first looks at the urinary virome, researchers find hundreds of viruses, most of which have never been sequenced before.
The test uses levels of plasma amyloid-β to estimate the buildup of protein plaques in the brain.
The Purdue University researcher is one of the first to examine the molecular processes that underlie infection by soil microbes.
The new database includes data from 27,000 samples collected at sites ranging from Alaskan permafrost to the ocean floor.
Like animals, plants host communities of microbes that influence a wide variety of their biological processes.
Pectin fragments may signal plant cells to maintain a type of growth suited to darkness.
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