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Genomics

Genetic Barcodes can Ensure Authentic DNA Fingerprints

May 25, 2020
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Durham, NC — Engineers at Duke University and the New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering have demonstrated a method for ensuring that an increasingly popular method of genetic identification...

At The Crossroads

May 25, 2020
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Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany — On average, the human body contains 35 trillion red blood cells (RBCs). Approximately three million of these small disc-shaped cells die in one second. But in this second,...

Identification of a Determining Factor in Luminal Cancer Cells

May 21, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — The Translational Control of Cell Cycle and Differentiation Lab at IRB Barcelona, led by ICREA researcher Raúl Méndez, has published a study in the journal Science Advances that...

Releasing Molecular ‘Brake’ Kick-Starts Immune Cell Function

May 21, 2020
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Grand Rapids, MI — The immune system’s ability to marshal specialized cells to fight off infection relies in part on tiny molecules called microRNAs, which act as a release for the “brakes”...

Enzymes Edit SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the Body, Perhaps Fueling the Virus’ Evolution

May 21, 2020
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Washington, D.C — Two human deaminase enzymes edit the RNA of the SARS-CoV-2 virus when it enters a patient’s body, with implications for the evolution of the virus and the spread of the infection,...

Location, Location, Location: The Cell Membrane Facilitates RAS Protein Interactions

May 21, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Many cancer medications fail to effectively target the most commonly mutated cancer genes in humans, called RAS. Now, Salk Professor Geoffrey Wahl and a team of scientists have uncovered...

Artificial Pieces of Brain Use Light to Communicate With Real Neurons

May 20, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — A prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces an injured or missing part of the body. You can easily imagine a stereotypical pirate with a wooden leg or Luke Skywalker’s famous...

Stitching Together the Structure of the DNA Replication Toolbelt

May 19, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — The molecular machinery responsible for replicating human DNA has come into sharper focus and deepened understanding of this fundamental biological process and how it can malfunction....

Genome-Wide Pattern Found in Tumours from Brain Cancer Patients Predicts Life Expectancy

May 19, 2020
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Salt Lake City, UT — For the past 70 years, the best indicator of life expectancy for a patient with glioblastoma (GBM) — the most common and the most aggressive brain cancer — has simply...

New Technology will Show How RNA Regulates Gene Activity

May 19, 2020
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — The discovery of a huge number of long non-protein coding RNAs, aka lncRNAs, in the mammalian genome was a major surprise of the recent large-scale genomics projects. An international...

Cancer Cells’ Growth Amid Crowding Reveals Nuanced Role for Known Oncogene

May 18, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Like subway com muters on a crowded train, cells generally prefer not to be packed in too tightly. In fact, they have set up mechanisms to avoid this, a phenomenon called “contact...

Study Identifies Group of Genes with Altered Expression in Autism

May 18, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Autism has long been associated only with behavioural and environmental factors, but the role of genetics in its development is now increasingly evident. Some 100 genes have been...

Tracking Organism’s Development, Cell by Cell

May 18, 2020
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Boston, MA — Scientists at the Stem Cell Research program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School have devised a mouse model that lets researchers...

Critical Window for Re-Infection With HIV After Stem Cell Transplantation

May 15, 2020
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Heidelberg, Germany — Some people with HIV need to undergo an allogeneic stem cell transplantation in order to treat different types of blood cancer. Most of the patient’s immune cells are eliminated...

First Epigenetic Study in 3D Human Cancer Cells

May 14, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Frequently, promising cancer therapies fail when applied to patients in the real clinical setting. This occurs despite many of these new treatments demonstrating promising results...

Significant Differences Exist Among Neurons Expressing Dopamine Receptors

May 14, 2020
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Bellaterra, Spain — An international collaboration, which included the involvement of the research team from the Institut de Neurociències of the UAB (INC-UAB), has shown that neurons expressing dopamine...

Disease Trigger for Pancreatitis has been Identified

May 14, 2020
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München, Germany — Patients suffering from chronic pancreatitis experience an either recurring or permanent inflammation of their pancreas. “In many cases, people develop this disease because...

Combo of Fasting Plus Vitamin C is Effective for Hard-to-Treat Cancers, Study Shows

May 14, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — Scientists from USC and the IFOM Cancer Institute in Milan have found that a fasting-mimicking diet could be more effective at treating some types of cancer when combined with vitamin...

Blood Cells could Serve as ‘Thermometer’ to Detect Breast Cancer

May 14, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Immune system cells in the blood of breast cancer patients undergo alterations early in the disease course, according to a study published in the journal Clinical...

Uncovering How ‘Dark Matter’ Regions of the Genome Affect Inflammatory Diseases

May 13, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — A study led by researchers at the Babraham Institute in collaboration with the Wellcome Sanger Institute has uncovered how variations in a non-protein coding ‘dark matter’...

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