#Microbiome confers resistance to cholera

“#Microbiome confers resistance to cholera” Vibrio cholerae bacterium, which is responsible for causing cholera. Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Cholera can kill within hours if left untreated, and it sickens as many as 4 million people a year. In a new article in the journal Cell, researchers describe how gut bacteria helps people…

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#Nanotechnology applied to medicine: The first liquid retina prosthesis

“#Nanotechnology applied to medicine: The first liquid retina prosthesis” Photoactive nanoparticles (in red) cover a retinal neuron membrane (nucleus in blue). Credit: IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (M. Bramini) Research at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) has led to the revolutionary development of an artificial liquid retinal prosthesis to counteract the effects of…

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#Faster processing makes cutting-edge fluorescence microscopy more accessible

“#Faster processing makes cutting-edge fluorescence microscopy more accessible” 3D image of a mouse intestine with different antibodies in green, red, yellow, and purple. Credit: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Scientists have developed new image processing techniques for microscopes that can reduce post-processing time up to several thousand-fold. The researchers are from the National…

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