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Nanotechnology
A delicate nanflower that is really deadly for bacteria
This elegant nanofrower adds antioxidant, antibacterial, and antibiotics characteristics when applied to the electro spinnano fiber bandage. Credit: ACS -applied bi material (2025). Doi: 10.1021/ACSABM.4C00788 You can use a carnation -like nano structure someday in a bandage to promote wound healing. Researchers have reported that ACS -applied bio -materials show that the dressing laboratory tests coated with nanflower indicate the…
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Biology
Surprising discovery sheds light on the cause of Huntington’s disease, a deadly brain disorder
This micrograph provided by the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean Hospital in January 2024 shows cells within the caudate nucleus structure of the brain of a patient with Huntington’s disease. Credit: Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean Hospital/NIH NeuroBioBank (via AP) Scientists are unraveling the mysteries that trigger Huntington’s disease. Huntington’s disease is a devastating and fatal…
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Nanotechnology
Scientists develop nanobody inhibitor to target deadly Ebola virus
Structural basis of anti-EBOV function of Nanosota-EB1. (A) Cryo-EM structure of EBOV GP-ΔM in complex with Nanosota-EB1 (top view, surface view). The three subunits of EBOV GP-ΔM are colored orange, gray, and green, respectively. Nanosota-EB1 is shown in blue. Two Nanosota-EB1 molecules are bound to the trimeric GP-ΔM. (B) Cryo-EM structure (side view) of EBOV GP-ΔM in complex with Nanosota-EB1.…
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Environment
Climate, migration and conflict combine to produce ‘deadly’ severe tropical cyclones like Chido
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cyclone Chido was a “strong tropical cyclone” equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. It made landfall on Mayotte, a small island northwest of Madagascar, on December 14, producing wind gusts close to 155 mph (250 kph). It then struck Mozambique in East Africa with the same ferocity. The storm bypassed north of…
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Biology
Seabird “food theft” could be source of deadly avian flu
Credit: Kindel Media from Pexels The deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus, which has killed millions of birds around the world since 2021 and can rarely infect humans, could spread through the food-stealing behaviour of some seabirds. A study published in the journal Conservation Letters suggests that food theft, also known as “kleptoparasitism,” in which some seabirds such as frigatebirds and…
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