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A Covid-19 Antigen Rapid Test Kit Delivered
Today, Academia Sinica (AS) proudly announced that the first ever monoclonal antibody specifically binding nucleocapsid protein (N protein) of the coronavirus has been successfully generated and tested, a work done by Dr. An-Suei Yang and his team at Genome Research Center in AS. If successfully developed and manufactured, the rapid immune based test kit could prove very useful in detecting coronavirus within 20 minutes just like a rapid influenza test.
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Sandwich-Like Enhanced Iron-platinum Nanoparticle Promising for Liver Cancer Detection and Treatment
Liver cancer, commonly referred to as HCC (the abbreviation of Hepatocellular carci-noma) scientifically, has another nickname – Silent Killer. It is Silent because the majority of patients can feel nothing, it is a “Killer” because oftentimes it is already fatal when detected.
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Maintaining Redox Homeostasis: A Savior for Treating Motor Neuron Diseases and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Reactive Oxygen Species, aka. ROS, are naturally formed as our cells go through metabolism. They are also needed at times when our immune systems use it as weapons while performing duties.
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AS Mystery and Potential Cure Uncovered
Ankylosing Spondylitis, commonly referred to as “AS”, is a kind of disease that usually started with the inflammation in the pelvic area, extending to the vertebral column and eventually leading to “bamboo spine”, when patients cannot keep their backs straight up.
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RNA Editing: A New Angle to Conduct Gene Therapy
This is the first time to explore the association between RNA editing activities and the damaging effect of genetic mutations at a population scale.
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Naa10p Depletion Burns Fat
Diet-induced obesity (DIO) is a serious health, society and economy issue worldwide. Obesity greatly increases the risk of many life-threatening diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancers.
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Exosome Proved a Rebel in Dengue Invasion
As the heat rises in the summer, so does the threat of Dengue fever outbreak. Despite of intensive research, there is no effective pharmaceutical treatments for Dengue fever.
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Glycans Promising To Fix Damaged Spinal Axons
An accident caused the spinal injury, and a person was sentenced to life time on wheels - such traumatic stories are not new, and all those paralyzed are still waiting for new medical breakthroughs.
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Hassle Free Influenza Vaccine Close to Reality
For almost a decade, the research team’s searching for an ideal influenza vaccine has been one of the most important research aims in GRC.
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Circulating Cancer Detection Tool Validated Clustering Key to Metastasis of Head & Neck Cancers
Cancer cell migration to other organs is a crucial factor leading to cancer metastasis and poor prognosis. It is a hot issue to be resolved.
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Hierachical and Programmable One-Pot Method Brings Oligosaccharide Synthesis to a Whole New Level
One of the most important classes of biomolecules, oligosaccharides are involved in a variety of biochemical processes, including intercellular recognition, cell differentiation, cancer proliferation, inflammation and immune responses.
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How Can You Mend a Broken Cell: Let Experimental Evolution Show You How
When an essential car part dies, we expect the car dies as well. Same must also be true for the cell, so we think, because cell is akin to a hugely complicated “car”, in which many micro-machines work together under the hood to produce life.
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Aldolase - Metabolic Enzymes with Great Potentials for Cancer Theraputics
The metabolic network plays an important role in homeostasis, which is a nature’s way of keeping everything balanced inside our bodies. In recent years, it has been discovered that within cancerous cells, the metabolic network is somehow tweaked.
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Collaborative Review Details Making Carbohydrates with “One-Pot” Strategies
As one of the important classes of organic molecules, carbohydrates are considered a class of sophisticated and mysterious kind. As more and more brave pioneers tapped into this unknown region, various glyco-molecules, glyco-proteins and glyco-lipids are found to play important roles in cell growth and diseases, thus, the sugars that we know of, and their large related family members generally called as saccharides, are becoming intriguing research topics.
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Promising HIV Vaccine Development Glycans Identified
Since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in 1981, more than 35 million people have died from the HIV/AIDS. Based on the statistics published by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), there were 36.7 million HIV carriers in 2016.
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New Antibiotic Natural Products Against Various Drug-resistant Bacteria Identified
The rise of antibiotic resistance together with the lack of effective treatment has been noticed as a major threat to human health recently, mainly due to the overuse or misuse of antibiotics, and the problem is getting even worse because of global warming and increasing human contact through globalization.
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A New Mobile Device to Measure Bio-particles Rapidly
As far as health related issues, new findings and solutions of health related is-sues are popping up quicker more than ever, thanks a lot to new technologies and instruments.
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A glycan that completes the journey of B cell
O-GlcNAcylation is a type of protein modification that is catalyzed by an enzyme called Ogt (O-GlcNAc transferase) and has been proved important during B cell activation by Lin’s group previously.
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DcR3 is the Main Cause of Endometriosis
Menstrual cramps is not an unfamiliar matter for half of the world population. Most women, if not have experienced it, would have known it from her female friends. Although there may be various reasons of a cramp, if the pain is caused Endometriosis, one should probably not just take a pain killer and wish it’ll go away someday.