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New research could help solve major challenge in the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines New research by University of Texas at Dallas scientists could help solve a major challenge in the deployment of certain COVID-19 vaccines worldwide -- the need for the vaccines to be kept at below-freezing temperatures during transport and storage. In a study published online April 13 in Nature Communications, the researchers demonstrate a new, inexpensive technique that generates crystalline exoskeletons aro...

Research looks at inflammatory nature of lipid nanoparticle component in mRNA vaccines Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the carrier vehicles that protect messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules from degradation and aid intracellular delivery and endosomal escape in the nucleoside-modified mRNA-LNP vaccine platforms currently used by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). These two vaccines surpass the rest with their effective support for T folli...

Information from ancient teeth could reveal new insights about the past Theres a surprising amount of information stored in the hardened plaque, or calculus, between teeth. And if that calculus belongs to the remains of a person who lived in ancient times, the information could reveal new insights about the past. But the tiny samples can be difficult to work with. Now, in ACS Journal of Proteome Research, scientists apply a new method to this analysis, finding more proteins than traditional ap...

Mosquito protein study could lead to therapeutics against deadly viruses The mosquito protein AEG12 strongly inhibits the family of viruses that cause yellow fever, dengue, West Nile, and Zika and weakly inhibits coronaviruses, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators. The researchers found that AEG12 works by destabilizing the viral envelope, breaking its protective covering. Although the protein does not affect viruses that do not have an enve...

Evonik partners with BioNTech to manufacture lipids for COVID-19 vaccine Caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread across the globe. The rise to dominance of several new variants of concern, some with observed heightened transmissibility, has contributed to a resurgence in cases in many parts of the world – particularly in the U.S., the U.K., Brazil, and South Africa. To date, over 107...

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MNCs keen on IOC tech for converting CO2 into Omega-3 fatty acids and lipids February 19, 2021 IOC to build a demonstration plant that can process 200 tonnes of CO2 daily Indian Oil Corporation has been getting overtures from many international companies for its home-grown technology for converting carbon dioxide into Omega-3 fatty acids and lipids. BASF, Total interested Disclosing this to BusinessLine during a recent conversation, IOC’s Director, R&D, Dr SSV Ramakumar, mentioned in this c...

New collaborative project to study the complex roles of lipids in health, disease A University of Minnesota-Mayo Clinic partnership has joined with the Zooniverse citizen scientist platform and the Francis Crick Institute in London to leverage world-leading expertise in microscope imaging with the power of citizen science to study the relationship between structure and function in biology to better understand health and disease. The Minnesota Microscopy Infrastructure Partnership, led by the Ma...

Lipids play a regulatory role and decisively influence cell growth Lipids are the building blocks of a cells envelope - the cell membrane. In addition to their structural function, some lipids also play a regulatory role and decisively influence cell growth. This has been investigated in a new study by scientists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). The impact of the lipids depends on how they are distributed over the plasma membrane. The study was published in " The Plant Cell"....

Using a smartphone-based microscope for detecting single molecules and diagnosing diseases Biomarkers play a central role in the diagnosis of disease and assessment of its course. Among the markers now in use are genes, proteins, hormones, lipids and other classes of molecules. Biomarkers can be found in the blood, in cerebrospinal fluid, urine and various types of tissues, but most of them have one thing in common: They occur in extremely low concentrations, and are therefore technically chall...