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Researchers Find Clues to Clarify Why Cohesine Has a Role in Cancer and Cardiac Development

August 12, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — Ana Losada, from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), is the scientist who identified cohesin in vertebrates, a protein that is essential in cell division. Losada has...

Detailed Molecular Workings of a Key System in Learning and Memory Formation

August 11, 2020
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Amherst, MA — One of the new realities in biomedical research is that it’s increasingly difficult to use a general approach to score advances. Now, investigations into disease mechanisms, for...

COVID-19 does not Directly Damage Taste Bud Cells

August 11, 2020
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Athens, GA — A new study from the Regenerative Bioscience Center at the University of Georgia is the first to suggest that COVID-19 does not directly damage taste bud cells. Contrary to previous...

Evolutionary Assimilation of Foreign DNA in a New Host

August 11, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — All life is subject to evolution in the form of mutations that change the DNA sequence of an organism’s offspring, after which natural selection allows the ‘fittest’...

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...

Integration of Gene Regulatory Networks in Understanding Animal Behaviour

August 10, 2020
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Champaign, IL — For years, scientists have attributed animal behaviour to the coordinated activities of neuronal cells and its circuits of neurons, known as the neuronal network (NN). However, researchers...

Pulmonary Fibrosis Treatment Shows Proof of Principle

August 6, 2020
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Cincinnati, OH — A pre-clinical study led by scientists at Cincinnati Children’s demonstrates that in mice the drug barasertib reverses the activation of fibroblasts that cause dangerous scar...

Interpreting the Human Genome’s Instruction Manual

August 5, 2020
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Berkeley, CA — A 17-year research project has generated a detailed atlas of the genome that reveals the location of hundreds of thousands of potential regulatory regions – a resource that will...

Researchers Develop New Mouse Model for Sars-Cov-2

August 5, 2020
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New York, NY — Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine have developed a new mouse model to study SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease and to accelerate testing of novel treatments and vaccines...

Deep Learning on Cell Signalling Networks Establishes AI for Single-Cell Biology

August 4, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — Computer systems that emulate key aspects of human problem solving are commonly referred to as artificial intelligence (AI). This field has seen massive progress over the last years....

AI & Single-Cell Genomics

August 4, 2020
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Augsburg, Germany — Traditional single-cell sequencing methods help to reveal insights about cellular differences and functions – but they do this with static snapshots only rather than time-lapse...

A Blood Test could Predict Who Benefits from Immunotherapy

August 4, 2020
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Toronto, ON — A test which detects changing levels of tumour fragments in the blood may be an easy, non-invasive and quick way to predict who will benefit from immunotherapy, a treatment option for...

Machine Learning Makes Drug Repurposing for Psychiatric Disorders more Effective

August 4, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Artificial intelligence can increase the effectiveness of drug repositioning or repurposing research, according to a study published in Translational Psychiatry. In the study, which...

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...

Cold-Sensitive Staphylococci Reveal a Weakness

August 3, 2020
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Geneva, Switzerland — “Staphylococcus aureus” – also known as “golden staph” – has the ability to develop in highly variable environmental conditions (on the skin,...

Tinkering with Roundworm Proteins Offers Hope for Anti-Ageing Drugs

August 3, 2020
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Daejeon, South Korea — KAIST researchers have been able to dial up and down creatures’ lifespans by altering the activity of proteins found in roundworm cells that tell them to convert sugar...

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...

Artificial Intelligence Finds Patterns of Mutations and Survival in Tumour Images

July 28, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Researchers at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, UK, and collaborators have developed...

Researchers Identify MicroRNA that Shows Promise for Hair Regrowth

July 28, 2020
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Raleigh, NC — Researchers from North Carolina State University have identified a microRNA (miRNA) that could promote hair regeneration. This miRNA – miR-218-5p – plays an important role...

New Way to Target Cancers Using ‘Synthetic Lethality’

July 28, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — With advances in genome sequencing, cancer treatments have increasingly sought to leverage the idea of “synthetic lethality,” exploiting cancer-specific genetic defects to...

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