This week, researchers reported on a new biopsy tool that can detect HPV-associated head and neck cancer up to 10 years before symptoms appear. Researchers developed a process to transform two-dimensional paintings into full-color, three-dimensional holograms, providing a new way to experience art in a gallery setting. And Chinese scientists designed a physical cassette capable of storing massive amounts of data encoded as DNA on a polyester-nylon tape substrate.
researchers reported on a new biopsy tool that can detect HPV-associated head and neck cancer up to 10 years before symptoms appear. Researchers developed a process to transform two-dimensional paintings into full-color, three-dimensional holograms, providing a new way to experience art in a gallery setting. And Chinese scientists designed a physical cassette capable of storing massive amounts of data encoded as DNA on a polyester-nylon tape substrate.
Hey, it’s the weekend, time to lounge around in comfortable trackwear and toss back a tall cold one, even though a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators found that tall cold ones can disrupt the regenerative abilities of the only human organ that regenerates—the liver. Specifically, the study concludes that excessive alcohol consumption can trap liver cells in a state between their functional and regenerative modes, the result of inflammation that disrupts RNA splicing during the protein-making process.
Auinash Kalsotra, who co-led the study, says, “We knew that the liver stops functioning and stops regenerating in patients with alcohol-related hepatitis and cirrhosis, even when a patient has discontinued consuming alcohol, but we didn’t know why… The only real life-saving treatment option once a patient reaches the liver failure stage in those diseases is transplantation.
