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Disease Processes

Lab-Created Molecule Achieves Positive Results in the Treatment of Arthritis

August 12, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Arthritis affects almost 2% of the world’s population, or some 150 million people, and currently, there is no completely effective treatment for this chronic disease. A new molecule...

Agtech to The Rescue in a Pandemic: Adapting Plant Labs for Human Testing

August 11, 2020
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Saskatoon, SK — Just as redeploying a fleet of small British fishing boats helped during the Battle of Dunkirk, marshalling the research equipment and expertise of the many agtech labs around the world...

NSD2 Enzyme Appears to Prevent Cellular Senescence

August 11, 2020
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Kumamoto, Japan — Researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan have used comprehensive genetic analysis to find that the enzyme NSD2, which is known to regulate the actions of many genes, also works...

Iron Study Combats Anaemia with Cutting-Edge Computer Simulation

August 4, 2020
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Parkville, Australia — A new iron intervention study has determined which of the world’s low-and-middle income countries would benefit from using iron-containing micronutrient powders to tackle...

New Understanding of CRISPR-Cas9 Tool could Improve Gene Editing

August 3, 2020
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Berkeley, CA — Within a mere eight years, CRISPR-Cas9 has become the go-to genome editor for both basic research and gene therapy. But CRISPR-Cas9 also has spawned other potentially powerful DNA manipulation...

Gene Variations at Birth Reveal Origins of Inflammation and Immune Disease

July 30, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — A study published in the journal Nature Communications has pinpointed a number of areas of the human genome that may help explain the neonatal origins of chronic immune and inflammatory...

Inflammation Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction Studied in Organoids

July 29, 2020
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Winston-Salem, NC — The scientists who developed the first 3D multicellular brain organoid with a functional blood brain barrier now report that the model could be a promising platform to screen drugs...

Computational Gene Study Suggests New Pathway for COVID-19 Inflammatory Response

July 29, 2020
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Oak Ridge, TN — Analyses of lung fluid cells from COVID-19 patients conducted on the nation’s fastest supercomputer point to gene expression patterns that may explain the runaway symptoms produced...

Protecting Beta Cells Against Stress may Guard Against Type 1 Diabetes

July 28, 2020
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Boston, MA — Type 1 diabetes occurs when a person’s own immune system destroys insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. In recent years, scientists have learned how to grow large volumes...

T Cells can Shift from Helping to Harming in Atherosclerosis

July 27, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — High cholesterol kills. In fact, one in four Americans will die from the consequences of atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaques of fat and cholesterol in the arteries. Statins have...

How to Repair Your Gut

July 21, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — In a world first, Monash University researchers have identified a key biomolecule that enhances the repair of your gut lining by prompting stem cells to regenerate damaged tissue. A...

Neural Vulnerability in Huntington’s Disease Tied to Release of Mitochondrial RNA

July 20, 2020
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Cambridge, MA — In the first study to comprehensively track how different types of brain cells respond to the mutation that causes Huntington’s disease (HD), MIT neuroscientists found that a...

Chemical Tailor-Made Suit for Alzheimer’s Drugs

July 20, 2020
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Göttingen, Germany — With over 1.2 million people affected in Germany alone and over 50 million people worldwide, Alzheimer’s disease, also referred to simply as Alzheimer’s, is one of...

Study Reveals Intricate Details about Huntington’s Disease Protein

July 20, 2020
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Buffalo, NY — A new study reveals intricate details about the biology of the huntingtin protein (HTT), which is responsible for Huntington’s disease. The research focuses on axonal transport...

Supplements with Potential to Prevent Alzheimer’s Affect Blood, but Less so the Brain

July 20, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — For years, a scientific puzzle has bedeviled researchers aiming to fight Alzheimer’s disease, a common and incurable form of dementia. The results of numerous lab investigations...

Making Balanced Decisions

July 16, 2020
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München, Germany — Animals have an innate preference for certain scents and tastes. Attractive scents are linked to things like good food. Less attractive scents – that of spoiled food, for example...

Designed New Model to Predict Life Expectancy of Severe Neurodegenerative Disease

July 16, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a serious minority neurodegenerative disease, with an annual rate of 1.5 cases per million inhabitants, which represents approximately 11 cases...

New Antiplatelet Drug Shows Promise for Treating Heart Attack

July 16, 2020
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Chicago, IL — Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a new drug that prevents blood clots without causing an increased risk of bleeding, a common side effect of all antiplatelet...

High-Fat Diet with Antibiotic Use Linked to Gut Inflammation

July 16, 2020
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Davis, CA — Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects approximately 11% of people worldwide. It is characterized by recurring episodes of abdominal pain, bloating and changes in bowel habits. IBS patients...

Severely Damaged Human Lungs can Now be Successfully Recovered

July 14, 2020
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New York, NY — Respiratory disease is the third leading cause of death worldwide, and lung transplantation is still the only cure for patients with end-stage lung disease. Despite advances in the field,...

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