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New lab-built neuron mirrors real brain cells in energy, runs on just 0.1 volts

The team’s advance changes this. “Ours register only 0.1 volts, which about the same as the neurons in our bodies,” says Yao. With this low-voltage design, the artificial neurons could integrate not ...

'Golden Broccoli' aptamer enables glycine imaging inside living cells

The amino acid glycine is an important neurotransmitter that regulates memory, reflex, and brain development, and it may also ...

Actin scaffold in cell nucleus explains survival of cancer cells

Cancer cells are subjected to high mechanical pressure that leads to a rupture of the nuclear envelope when migrating through ...
C&EN

Two-Step Experiment for Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Using Green Techniques: Synthesis of Acetylferrocene and Its Reduction to (±)-1-Ferrocenylethanol

Electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions and ketone reduction are fundamental reactions in sophomore-level organic chemistry courses. One commonly taught example of electrophilic aromatic ...
C&EN

Phototoxicity of Half-Sandwich Rhodium(III) Complexes with Anthracene and Biphenyl Substituents toward Mammalian Cancer Cells and Multicellular Tumor Spheroids

Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Slechtitelu 241/27, CZ-77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic ...
Medical Xpress

Scientists reprogram cancer-protecting regulatory T cells to fight tumors

Indiana University School of Medicine scientists have developed a new method that shifts the behavior of immunosuppressive cells in tumors, turning them from cancer protectors into tumor fighters. The ...