University at Buffalo researchers grew salivary organoids from human stem cells that survived and integrated in mouse glands for over 40 days. The goal is replacement tissue for radiation and Sjögren's dry mouth, where gland stimulation and artificial saliva have fallen short.
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A machine-learning-accelerated simulation in npj Computational Materials puts electron transfer in TiSe2/HfSe2 under 50 femtoseconds and nearly stops it in one stacking of ZrTe2/HfTe2, for under a tenth of the usual compute.
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At very low temperature, quantum fluctuations can unfreeze a spin glass instead of locking it tighter, and the state on the other side is the fast, entangled one the SYK model uses to describe black holes.
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A five-year, $3.3 million project led at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will test whether the biology that builds sea sponge skeletons can break silicon-rich industrial waste apart gently enough to free the minerals inside.
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Chemists in Tubingen measured the selectivity first and could not explain it. Crystallography at Buffalo found that the molecule bumps a flexible loop on p38 delta, and the loop kinks and wraps around it.
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A Buffalo-led team reports RNA condenses about 10 degrees Celsius below matched DNA, and traces it to the 2'-hydroxyl. That gives the RNA-world story a compartment without a membrane.
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