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By Michael Torrice. Department: Science & Technology News Channels: Biological SCENE Keywords: biotechnology, biochemistry, contraceptives, sperm, fertilization, zona pellucida · [+]Enlarge. Optical (left) and fluorescent (right) micrographs show how ...

Prion proteins have a notorious reputation. These types of proteins can fold into conformations that coax other prions to join them, leading to the formation of insoluble protein aggregates. This is the mechanism behind some neurodegenerative diseases ...

T-cell-deficient mice with leg muscle wounds regrew tissue when injected with a mixture of T cells (left) but formed scar tissue (light purple, right) when given cells unable to turn into type 2 helper T cells. These tissue slices are a few millimeters ...

Lee Blaney tells people he has the best-smelling lab on the campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He's joking. The environmental engineer and his team operate reactors bubbling with slurries of chicken manure that give off a ...

Slices of quadriceps muscle tissue from mice lacking T cells, taken after researchers treated a wound with biomaterial suspensions. Mice injected with normal T cells regenerated muscle tissue (left), and animals getting cells unable to turn into type 2 ...