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SARS-CoV-2 can infect neurons and damage brain tissue, study indicates

January 15, 2021
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New York, NY — Using both mouse and human brain tissue, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect the central nervous system and have begun to unravel...

Scientists Identify ‘Immune Cop’ that Detects SARS-CoV-2

January 15, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have identified the sensor in human lungs that detects SARS-CoV-2 and signals that it’s time to mount an antiviral...

Metabolism may Play Role in Recurrent Major Depression

January 15, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with Dutch scientists, have found that certain metabolites — small molecules produced by...

A Potent Weapon Against Lymphomas

January 13, 2021
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Berlin, Germany — MDC researchers have developed a new approach to CAR T-cell therapy. The team has shown in Nature Communications that the procedure is very effective, especially when it comes to...

Scientists Develop Method to More Efficiently Isolate and Identify Rare T Cells

January 13, 2021
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Los Angeles, CA — Scientists from the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have developed a technique that will enable researchers to more efficiently...

Scientists Uncover the Structure of Wnt, Wntless Proteins

January 13, 2021
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Singapore — Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore and Columbia University in the US have solved how Wnt proteins, which play a fundamental role in cell proliferation and differentiation,...

Confined Growth of ZIF-8 in Organosilica Nanoparticles to Regulate mRNA Translation

January 13, 2021
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Beijing, China — Delivery of genetic molecules such as mRNA into cells is vital with important applications such as vaccine development. Various agents have been developed for mRNA delivery. However,...

Unravelling the Mystery that Makes Viruses Infectious

January 13, 2021
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Leeds, UK — Researchers have for the first time identified the way viruses like the poliovirus and the common cold virus ‘package up’ their genetic code, allowing them to infect cells. The...

New Findings Help Explain How COVID-19 Overpowers the Immune System

January 12, 2021
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Los Angeles, CA — Seeking to understand why COVID-19 is able to suppress the body’s immune response, new research from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology suggests that mitochondria are...

Stem Cells Use Piston-like Engine to ‘Drive’ to Their Destinations

January 12, 2021
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Stanford, CA — Our bodies often dispatch stem cells to mend or replace biological damage, but how these repair agents make their way through dense tissue to arrive at the scene had been a mystery....

Cell Biologists Decipher Signal that Ensures no Chromosome is Left Behind

January 11, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Starting as a single cell, organisms undergo millions of generations of divisions to ultimately generate the bones, heart, brain and other components that make up a living being. The...

New Clues to Prostate Cancer

January 11, 2021
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Bedford Park, South Australia — Australian research has identified a new mechanism in which prostate cancer cells can ‘switch’ character and become resistant to therapy. These findings,...

Making Therapeutic Sense of Antisense Oligonucleotides

January 11, 2021
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Tokyo, Japan — Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Ionis Pharmaceuticals, USA, report a modification wherein replacing the RNA strand of a heteroduplex oligonucleotide with...

Natural Products with Potential Efficacy Against Lethal Viruses

January 11, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego have broken down the genomic and...

New Study on Circadian Clock Shows “Junk DNA” Plays a Key Role in Regulating Rhythms

January 11, 2021
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Los Angeles, CA — If you’ve ever had a bad case of jet lag, you know how a disruption to your body’s circadian rhythm makes it difficult to function. Molecular circadian “clocks”...

Potential Treatment Approach Kills Lymphoma while Sparing Healthy Cells

December 17, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists at Scripps Research have demonstrated a promising new strategy for treating lymphomas, a group of cancers that begin in infection-fighting cells of the immune system called...

Immune Cell that Drives Breast Cancer could be Effective Target in Novel Immunotherapies

December 16, 2020
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Richmond, VA — Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, but many immunotherapies have had limited success in treating aggressive forms of the disease. “A deeper understanding...

Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Ease Brain Bleeding in Newborn Rats

December 16, 2020
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Durham, NC — Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) – or bleeding in the brain – is a devastating condition common to premature babies, especially those born more than 10 weeks early. Injuries...

Researchers Discover Clue to How to Protect Neurons and Encourage Their Growth

December 15, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Many neurodegenerative conditions, from glaucoma to Alzheimer’s disease, are characterized by injury to axons — the long, slender projections that conduct electrical impulses...

Newly Discovered Toxin-Antitoxin System Abundant in One-Cell Organisms

December 14, 2020
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State College, PA — Bacteria are always hungry, according to Thomas Wood, Biotechnology Endowed Chair and professor of chemical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering. If you gave a single...

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