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Chickens and Pigs with Integrated Genetic Scissors

April 21, 2021
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Munich, Germany — Researchers at the TUM have demonstrated a way to efficiently study molecular mechanisms of disease resistance or biomedical issues in farm animals. Researchers are now able to introduce...

Chaperone Protein Imbalance Promotes Toxic Tau Buildup in Ageing Brain

April 21, 2021
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Tampa, FL — Chaperone protein imbalance can play a significant role in initiating toxic accumulation of tau in the ageing brain – an early step in the development of Alzheimer’s disease...

‘Information Theory’ Recruited to Help Scientists Find Cancer Genes

April 21, 2021
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Baltimore, MD — Using a widely known field of mathematics designed mainly to study how digital and other forms of information are measured, stored and shared, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine and...

Scientists Identify Protein that could Serve as Therapeutic Target in Lung Cancer

April 20, 2021
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Richmond, VA — Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have identified a protein that operates in tandem with a specific genetic mutation to spur lung cancer growth and could serve as a therapeutic...

Scientists Discover a New Gene Regulation Mechanism

April 19, 2021
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — A team of scientists from Russia studied the role of double-stranded fragments of the maturing RNA and showed that the interaction between distant parts of the RNA can regulate...

COVID-19: Scientists Identify Human Genes that Fight Infection

April 19, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified a set of human genes that fight SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19. Knowing which genes help control viral infection...

Neural Plasticity Depends on this Long Noncoding RNA’s Journey from Nucleus to Synapse

April 19, 2021
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Jupiter, FL — Making memories involves more than seeing friends or taking photos. The brain constantly adapts to new information and stores memories by building connections among neurons, called synapses....

Understanding How DNA Repairs Itself may Lead to Better Cancer Treatment

April 16, 2021
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Evanston, IL — From cancer treatment to sunlight, radiation and toxins can severely damage DNA in both harmful and healthy cells. While the body has evolved to efficiently treat and restore damaged...

Scientists Program Microalgae’s ‘Oil Factory’ to Produce Various Oils

April 16, 2021
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Beijing, China — By combining the ‘chassis’ of an oil-producing microalgae with genes from a Cuphea plant, scientists from the Single-Cell Center, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess...

The Architect of Genome Folding

April 15, 2021
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Halle (Saale), Germany — The DNA molecule is not naked in the nucleus. Instead, it is folded in a very organized way by the help of different proteins to establish a unique spatial organization of...

DNA Structure Itself is Involved in Genome Regulation

April 15, 2021
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Madrid, Spain — The (when stretched) two-metre-long DNA molecule in each human cell is continuously being unpacked and packed again to enable the expression of genetic information. When genes must...

Lab Study Solves Textbook Problem: How Cells Know Their Size

April 15, 2021
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Hanover, NH — Scientists have searched for years to understand how cells measure their size. Cell size is critical. It’s what regulates cell division in a growing organism. When the microscopic...

Protein can Release Trapped Histones in the Cell

April 15, 2021
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Copenhagen, Denmark — In the cell nucleus histones play a crucial role packaging DNA into chromatin. Histones are however very sticky to both DNA and RNA, so to ensure they are transported to the cell...

For Tomato Genes, One Plus One Doesn’t Always Make Two

April 14, 2021
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Both people and tomatoes come in different shapes and sizes. That is because every individual has a unique set of genetic variations–mutations–that affect how genes...

Cancer DNA Blood Tests Validated by International Research Team

April 14, 2021
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Darlinghurst, Australia — An international team today reports the findings of an independent assessment of five commercially-available assays for tumour DNA sequencing – a fast, cheap and less...

Tummy Invader: This Bacterial Molecule may be Key to Fighting Stomach Cancer

April 13, 2021
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Osaka, Japan — Humans are exposed to many types of bacteria daily, the majority of which are harmless. However, some bacteria are pathogenic, which means they can cause disease. An extremely common...

More than the Sum of Mutations

April 13, 2021
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Halle (Saale), Germany — A new algorithm can predict which genes cause cancer, even if their DNA sequence is not changed. A team of researchers in Berlin combined a wide variety of data, analyzed it...

Technique Allows Mapping of Epigenetic Information in Single Cells at Scale

April 13, 2021
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Solna, Sweden — Histones are tiny proteins that bind to DNA and hold information that can help turn on or off individual genes. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a technique that...

Neural Stem Cells Age Rapidly, Study Reveals

April 13, 2021
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Los Angeles, CA — In a new study published in Cell Stem Cell, a team led by USC Stem Cell scientist Dr. Michael Bonaguidi, demonstrates that neural stem cells – the stem cells of the nervous...

Activating the Brain’s Immune System Against Cancer Prevents It from Spreading

April 13, 2021
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Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel — Groundbreaking research from Tel Aviv University may lead to a significant breakthrough in the battle against deadly brain cancer. To begin with, the researchers identified...

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