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Working remotely, Stanford team devises a much-needed medical device
Foremost among the symptoms affecting critically ill COVID-19 patients is respiratory failure. During the first wave of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, patients admitted to critical care were more...
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Getting the stains out
For the past century, diagnosing malaria infections in the developing countries where the disease is endemic has been a tedious and imperfect process. Armed with a field backpack, dedicated technicians...
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How enzymes weather mutations
Countless diseases are caused by genetic mutations that lead to dysfunctional proteins, and even minor disruptions in the folding of a protein can affect its ultimate structure and shake up the cell’s...
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Who’s feeding the fish?The robot!
The small but hardy zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a blue-striped freshwater minnow that has long been a favorite in home aquariums. The fish are also prized by developmental biologists as a model...
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From parts list to blueprint: OpenCell lights the way
Scientists have made great strides in understanding the complexity of the cell in the nearly 360 years since English polymath Robert Hooke discovered this smallest unit of life. The anatomy of the cell...
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What New Cell Biology Can AI Reveal Just by Looking at Images? A Lot!
AI learned how to recognize and classify different dog breeds from images. A new machine learning method from CZ Biohub now makes it possible to classify and compare different human proteins from...
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Seeing malaria in a new light
When the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub’s Paul Lebel first designed and built a microscope that uses ultraviolet (UV) light, he figured it would simply be a helpful research tool for scientists. Little did he...
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