Researchers advance technology for protecting engineered cells
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Genetically engineered cell lines used in biomedical research have long been prone to misidentification and unauthorized use, wasting billions of dollars each year and jeopardizing critical scientific discoveries. These problems not only undermine reproducibility of research results, but also put valuable intellectual property at risk.
Now, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have developed a novel method to embed unique genetic identifiers in engineered cell lines, eliminating identification errors and safeguarding innovations with tamper-proof genomic tags.
Researchers from the universities of Plymouth and Wolverhampton say a new tool could help them identify the early signs of gaming-related harms.
The addition of the hormone progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy leads to increased breast growth for transgender people following feminising hormone therapy. This is demonstrated by an Amsterdam UMC-led trial among 90 participants and these results are presented today at the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) annual congress in Hamburg.
Suicide remains a leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults worldwide. However, recent global data reveal heterogeneous suicide trends across regions.
A new study by researchers at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine has found that suicide rates among young people (ages 10-29) are moving in very different directions across countries. In the U.S. and Canada, most groups of young people are seeing stable or even declining rates, except for Canadian teenage girls, who continue to show increases. In South Korea, however, suicide rates among both young men and women have sharply increased in recent years, especially among young women.