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Stealing the Spotlight in the Field and Kitchen

January 21, 2021
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Madison, WI — Plant breeders are constantly working to develop new bean varieties to meet the needs and desires of the food industry. But not everyone wants the same thing. Many consumers desire...

Researchers Identify New Genetic Disorder that Affects Brain, Craniofacial Skeleton

January 21, 2021
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Bethesda, MD — Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new genetic disorder characterized by developmental delays and malformations of the brain, heart and facial features....

Study Reveals Immune Driver of Brain Ageing

January 21, 2021
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Stanford, CA — Suppose Smokey the Bear were to go on a tear and start setting forest fires instead of putting them out. That roughly describes the behaviour of certain cells of our immune system that...

Automated Imaging Reveals Where TAU Protein Originates in the Brain in Alzheimer’s Disease

January 21, 2021
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Washington, DC — Researchers have developed an automated method that can track the development of harmful clumps of TAU protein related to Alzheimer’s disease in the brain, according to work...

Designer DNA Therapeutic Wipes Out Cancer Stem Cells, Treats Multiple Myeloma in Mice

January 21, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Many patients with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, eventually develop resistance to one treatment after another. That’s in part because cancer stem cells drive the disease...

Brain Cell Network Supplies Neurons with Energy

January 20, 2021
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Bonn, Germany — The human brain has about as many neurons as glial cells. These are divided into four major groups: the microglia, the astrocytes, the NG2 glial cells, and the oligodendrocytes. Oligodendrocytes...

Unlocking ‘The Shape of Water’ in Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance

January 20, 2021
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Chicago, IL — New high-resolution structures of the bacterial ribosome determined by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago show that a single water molecule may be the cause — and...

Genome Editing to Treat Human Retinal Degeneration

January 20, 2021
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New Rochelle, NY — Gene editing therapies, including CRISPR-Cas systems, offer the potential to correct mutations causing inherited retinal degenerations, a leading cause of blindness. Technological...

Getting Under Your Skin: Molecular Research Builds New Understanding of Skin Regeneration

January 19, 2021
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Evanston, IL — As the air continues to dry and temperatures drop, the yearly battle against dry hands and skin has officially begun. New research from Northwestern University has found new evidence...

New Approach Emerges to Better Classify, Treat Brain Tumours

January 19, 2021
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Augusta, GA — A look at RNA tells us what our genes are telling our cells to do, and scientists say looking directly at the RNA of brain tumour cells appears to provide objective, efficient evidence...

How Cells Move and Don’t Get Stuck

January 19, 2021
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Berlin, Germany — Cell velocity, or how fast a cell moves, is known to depend on how sticky the surface is beneath it, but the precise mechanisms of this relationship have remained elusive for decades....

Synthesis of Potent Antibiotic Follows Unusual Chemical Pathway

January 19, 2021
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State College, PA — Images of a protein involved in creating a potent antibiotic reveal the unusual first steps of the antibiotic’s synthesis. The improved understanding of the chemistry behind...

Eliminating Microplastics in Wastewater Directly at the Source

January 19, 2021
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Quebec, Canada — A research team from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has developed a process for the electrolytic treatment of wastewater that degrades microplastics at the...

New Computational Tool Reliably Differentiates between Cancer and Normal Cells from Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data

January 19, 2021
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Houston, TX — In an effort to address a major challenge when analyzing large single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a...

How Plants Produce Defensive Toxins without Harming Themselves

January 18, 2021
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Jena, Germany — Plants produce toxic substances to defend themselves against herbivores. In a new study, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and the University of...

Even Skin Shielded from the Sun Accumulates Genomic DNA Changes from UV Light

January 18, 2021
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Durham, NC — For the first time, scientists have measured the different types of genomic DNA changes that occur in skin cells, finding that mutations from ultraviolet (UV) light is especially common,...

Cancer Research Reveals How Mutations in a Specific Gene Cause Different Types of Disease

January 18, 2021
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Birmingham, UK — Leading cancer experts at the University of Birmingham have solved a long-standing question of how various types of mutations in just one gene cause different types of diseases. A...

Acute Itching in Eczema Patients Linked to Environmental Allergens

January 18, 2021
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St. Louis, MO — In addition to a skin rash, many eczema sufferers also experience chronic itching, but sometimes that itching can become torturous. Worse, antihistamines — the standard treatment...

Nanodiamonds Feel the Heat

January 18, 2021
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Osaka, Japan — A team of scientists from Osaka University, The University of Queensland, and the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Engineering used tiny nanodiamonds coated with a...

Basis for the Essential Cellular Powerhouses

January 18, 2021
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Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany — Mitochondria are vital for the human body as cellular powerhouses: They possess more than 1,000 different proteins, required for many central metabolic pathways. Disfunction...

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