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Jul 16
Jul 16 Scientists Discover How Deep-Sea, Ultra-Black Fish Disappear

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Ultra-black fish skin absorbs more than 99 percent of the light that hits it, using an efficient strategy that could be applied to optical and camouflage technology.

Full story at Smithsonian

Jul 14
Jul 14 Mapping Brain Connections Using DNA Barcodes

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Using DNA sequencing instead of microscopy dramatically reduces the cost of mapping brain-wide connections.

Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Jul 7
Jul 7 Blocking Cholesterol Storage Could Stop Pancreatic Tumors

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Preclinical findings suggest that interfering with the way pancreatic cancer cells store cholesterol could be a way to treat the disease.

Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Jul 2
Jul 2 Aggressive Cancer Treatment is Appropriate for People with HIV-Associated Lymphoma

Jennifer Michalowski
News, National Cancer Institute

Chemoimmunotherapy can lead to long-lasting remissions of HIV-associated primary central nervous system lymphoma, without impairing cognitive function.

Full story at National Cancer Institute

Jun 29
Jun 29 New Clues about Blood Clot Formation in Very Ill COVID-19 Patients

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

High levels of the sticky, pathogen-trapping webs produced by certain immune cells were associated with the most severe cases of COVID-19 in a clinical study.

Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Jun 18
Jun 18 How Chandelier Cells Light up the Brain

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

A single chandelier cell reaches out to connect and communicate with more than 100 other neurons.

Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Jun 17
Jun 17 The DNA Tricks that Gave Us 100 Kinds of Tomatoes

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

More than 200,000 large-scale DNA variations give tomatoes their diverse flavors, determine crop yields, and influence other important traits.

Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

May 18
May 18 Smoking Increases SARS-CoV-2 Receptors in the Lungs

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

New research suggests that cigarette smoke spurs the lungs to make more ACE2, the protein that the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 uses to enter human cells.

Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Apr 30
Apr 30 In Search of the Genetic Components Behind Psychiatric Disorders

Jennifer Michalowski
Feature, BrainFacts

Genetics indicate that current diagnostic criteria for mental illness fail to reflect the biological problems at the root of patients’ symptoms.

Full story at BrainFacts

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