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Proteins are complex molecules that are made up of amino acids. They can be found in every cell in the body, and carry out vital processes that keep human beings alive. Mutations in proteins can lead to a multitude of diseases, the most common being cancer.

New in vivo priming strategy can be an effective means to enhance cardiac repair

Human stem cells have been regarded as one of the promising cell sources for cardiac regeneration therapy.

27 Mar 2020

Genetic mutation found to improve cognitive flexibility in mice

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered in mice what they believe is the first known genetic mutation to improve cognitive flexibility--the ability to adapt to changing situations.

27 Mar 2020

Heart and kidney patients should keep taking their medicines during COVID-19 pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, inaccurate medical information has flooded social media and other channels.

27 Mar 2020

Researchers enlist the help of citizen scientists to design new drugs against coronavirus

The best thing most of us can do to fight COVID-19 is stay home, to curb the respiratory disease's spread. But anyone with a computer can pitch in more actively too: by helping scientists design drugs to combat the virus now responsible for hundreds of thousands of infections worldwide.

27 Mar 2020

Size of tumor tissue area crucial for reliable cancer prognosis, study shows

The method of choice used for preparing tissue samples can lead to biased results in the analysis of cancer patient survival.

27 Mar 2020

SLAC structural biologist discovers a strange cavity in key tuberculosis protein

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a strange new feature of a protein that’s thought to be important in the development of tuberculosis: The protein contains a “huge” interior pocket, the likes of which has never before been seen, that appears capable of passing a wide range of other molecules into the bacterial cell.

27 Mar 2020

A promising strategy to overcome drug resistance developed by blood cancer cells

In a collaborative study published in Blood Advances, a research group led by Beate Heissig at Juntendo University and Yousef Salama at An Najah University report a strategy to overcome drug resistance developed by blood cancer cells.

27 Mar 2020

Global scientific collaboration produces first genetic map of the cerebral cortex

The cerebral cortex is the relatively thin, folded, outer "gray matter" layer of the brain crucial for thinking, information processing, memory, and attention.

27 Mar 2020

Roscovitine enhances nuclear enrichment of traditionally cytoplasmic signaling molecules

Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 12 reported that using the HL-60 human non-APL AML model where ATRA causes nuclear enrichment of c-Raf that drives differentiation/G0-arrest, the research team now observe that roscovitine enhanced nuclear enrichment of certain traditionally cytoplasmic signaling molecules and enhanced differentiation and cell cycle arrest.

26 Mar 2020

Targeting specific histone deacetylase may be novel therapeutic strategy for NSCLC

The survival rates for patients with non-small cell lung cancer have improved greatly over the past decade thanks to several new targeted treatment options for patients.

26 Mar 2020

Mount Sinai researchers reveal innovative mechanisms to predict and prevent Crohn's disease

In a series of four studies published today in Gastroenterology, a journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, Mount Sinai inflammatory bowel disease researchers, describe the identification of predictive tools and a new understanding of environmental factors that trigger IBD.

26 Mar 2020

New 'more effective' stem cell transplant method could improve treatment of blood diseases

Researchers at UCL have developed a new way to make blood stem cells present in the umbilical cord 'more transplantable', a finding in mice which could improve the treatment of a wide range of blood diseases in children and adults.

26 Mar 2020

Anteater-like animals are the missing link for coronavirus transmission between bats and humans

As scientists scramble to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, two recent studies of the virus' genome reached controversial conclusions: namely, that snakes are intermediate hosts of the new virus, and that a key coronavirus protein shares "uncanny similarities" with an HIV-1 protein.

26 Mar 2020

Scientists unravel mystery about how nature can access genetic information in cells

Australian scientists have unraveled part of the mystery about how nature can usefully access genetic information in cells despite it being so tightly packed away.

26 Mar 2020

Insights into diagnosis and treatment of rare pediatric brain cancer

Ependymoma is a rare form of brain cancer that implicates children and is often tricky to diagnose.

26 Mar 2020

Model that sheds light on severe Duchenne muscular dystrophy could pave the way for new therapies

Researchers have developed an experimental model of severe Duchenne muscular dystrophy that offers insight into the disease.

26 Mar 2020

Key protein in sperm production could aid male infertility treatments

Researchers have discovered that a key protein drives sperm production, knowledge that may help infertile couples conceive.

26 Mar 2020

Finding new treatments for muscular dystrophy with CRISPR-Cas9

A new study out of Boston's Children's Hospital has used the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 to explore the fatal genetic condition called facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD, one of the family of muscular dystrophies), and to test out the potential utility of various genes involved in this disorder. The research is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

25 Mar 2020

Targeting critical enzyme for sperm formation could help address male infertility

While some of our body's cells divide in a matter of hours, the process of making sperm, meiosis, alone takes about 14 days from start to finish. And fully six of those days are spent in the stage known as the pachytene, when pairs of chromosomes from an individual's mother and father align and connect.

25 Mar 2020

Researchers aim to find the genetic basis of severe coronavirus infection in young people

Hundreds of clinicians worldwide are banding together in an effort to study some types of severe cases of the new coronavirus disease.

25 Mar 2020

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New in vivo priming strategy can be an effective means to enhance cardiac repair

Genetic mutation found to improve cognitive flexibility in mice

Heart and kidney patients should keep taking their medicines during COVID-19 pandemic

Researchers enlist the help of citizen scientists to design new drugs against coronavirus

Size of tumor tissue area crucial for reliable cancer prognosis, study shows

SLAC structural biologist discovers a strange cavity in key tuberculosis protein

A promising strategy to overcome drug resistance developed by blood cancer cells

Global scientific collaboration produces first genetic map of the cerebral cortex

Roscovitine enhances nuclear enrichment of traditionally cytoplasmic signaling molecules

Targeting specific histone deacetylase may be novel therapeutic strategy for NSCLC

Mount Sinai researchers reveal innovative mechanisms to predict and prevent Crohn's disease

New 'more effective' stem cell transplant method could improve treatment of blood diseases

Anteater-like animals are the missing link for coronavirus transmission between bats and humans

Scientists unravel mystery about how nature can access genetic information in cells

Insights into diagnosis and treatment of rare pediatric brain cancer

Model that sheds light on severe Duchenne muscular dystrophy could pave the way for new therapies

Key protein in sperm production could aid male infertility treatments

Finding new treatments for muscular dystrophy with CRISPR-Cas9

Targeting critical enzyme for sperm formation could help address male infertility

Researchers aim to find the genetic basis of severe coronavirus infection in young people

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