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Study Shows How Exercise Stalls Cancer Growth Through the Immune System

October 27, 2020
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Solna, Sweden — People with cancer who exercise generally have a better prognosis than inactive patients. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found a likely explanation of why...

CRISPR Screen Identifies Genes, Drug Targets to Protect Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection

October 27, 2020
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New York, NY — To identify new potential therapeutic targets for SARS-CoV-2, a team of scientists at the New York Genome Center, New York University, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,...

Neuron-Based Gene Expression Study Reveals Insights on Fear and Its Regulation

October 27, 2020
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Belmont, MA — Fear and fear extinction learning (the gradual reduction of fear by repeated exposure to the feared object) are adaptive processes caused by molecular changes in specific brain circuits,...

New Map of the Immune Landscape in Pancreatic Cancer could Guide Immunotherapy

October 27, 2020
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Ann Arbor, MI — Stubbornly, frustratingly, pancreatic cancer has remained resistant to immunotherapies that are revolutionizing the treatment of many types of cancer. A new study led by the University...

Discovery of pH-Dependent ‘Switch’ in Interaction Between Pair of Protein Molecules

October 27, 2020
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Beijing, China — All biological processes are in some way pH-dependent. Our human bodies, and those of other organisms, need to maintain specific- and constant- pH regulation in order to function....

New Therapeutic Approach Against Leukaemia

October 27, 2020
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Martinsried, Germany — Leukaemia frequently originates from the so-called leukaemia stem cell, which resides in a tumour promoting and protecting niche within the bone marrow. Scientists from the Max...

SPOTlight Supercharges Cell Studies

October 27, 2020
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Houston, TX — Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new method to isolate specific cells, and in the process found a more robust fluorescent protein. Both...

Chemist Created a Catalyst from Orange Peel for Organic Compounds Production

October 27, 2020
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Moscow, Russia — N-heterocycles are organic substances used in the chemical industry and medicine. To produce them, expensive catalysts made from noble metals are used. A chemist from RUDN University...

Exploring the Source of Stars and Planets in Laboratory

October 27, 2020
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Princeton, NJ — A new method for verifying a widely held but unproven theoretical explanation of the formation of stars and planets has been proposed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s...

Super-Resolution Microscopy and Machine Learning Shed New Light on Fossil Pollen Grains

October 27, 2020
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Urbana, IL — Plant biology researchers at the University of Illinois and computer scientists at the University of California Irvine have developed a new method of fossil pollen identification through...

‘Mini-Lungs’ Reveal Early Stages of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

October 26, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — ‘Mini-lungs’ grown from tissue donated to Cambridge hospitals has provided a team of scientists from South Korea and the UK with important insights into how COVID-19 damages...

Rapid Method of Isolating Tumour-Targeting T Cells could Propel Personalized Cancer Treatment

October 26, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — When it comes to defeating cancer, some immune cells are mightier than others. But even the best-trained eye and today’s advanced scientific tools have trouble discerning the most...

Cord Blood DNA can Hold Clues for Early ASD Diagnosis and Intervention

October 26, 2020
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Davis, CA — A new study led by UC Davis MIND Institute researchers found a distinct DNA methylation signature in the cord blood of newborns who were eventually diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder...

Transcription Factors may Inadvertently Lock in DNA Mistakes

October 26, 2020
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Durham, DC — Transcription factor proteins are the light switches of the human genome. By binding to DNA, they help turn genes “on” or “off” and start the important process...

Innovation Spins Spider Web Architecture into 3D Imaging Technology

October 26, 2020
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West Lafayette, IN — Purdue University innovators are taking cues from nature to develop 3D photodetectors for biomedical imaging. The Purdue researchers used some architectural features from spider...

Spectral CT Improves Detection of Early-Stage Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

October 26, 2020
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Leesburg, VA — According to an open-access article in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), the use of spectral CT with electron density imaging could improve the assessment of lung...

Delivering Proteins to Testes could Someday Treat Male Infertility

October 26, 2020
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Rochester, MN — According to the Mayo Clinic, about 15% of couples are infertile, and male infertility plays a role in over one-third of these cases. Often, problems with sperm development are to blame....

Hidden States of the COVID-19 Spike Protein

October 26, 2020
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Austin, TX — The virus wreaking havoc on our lives is an efficient infection machine. Comprised of only 29 proteins (compared to our 400,000), with a genome 1/200,000 the size of ours, SARS-CoV-2 is...

Observed COVID-19 Variability may Have Underlying Molecular Sources

October 26, 2020
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Riverside, CA — People have different susceptibilities to SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, and develop varying degrees of fever, fatigue, and breathing problems — common symptoms...

Genome Archeologists Discover Path to Activate Immune Response Against Cancer

October 26, 2020
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Toronto, ON — Ancient embedded elements in our DNA from generations past can activate a powerful immune response to kill cancer cells like an infection. The work builds on Princess Margaret Senior...

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