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New Insights into How CRISPR Immune System Evolved

November 26, 2020
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Aarhus, Denmark — With new insights into how the genetic tool CRISPR – which allows direct editing of our genes – evolved and adapted, we are now one step closer to understanding the basis...

Did Early Life Need Long, Complex Molecules to Make Cell-Like Compartments?

November 24, 2020
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State College, PA — Protocell compartments used as models for an important step in the early evolution of life on Earth can be made from short polymers. The short polymers, which better approximate...

Tarantula Toxin Attacks with Molecular Stinger

November 24, 2020
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Seattle, WA — Oversized, hairy tarantulas may be unsightly and venomous, but surprisingly their hunter toxin may hold answers to better control of chronic pain. A bird-catching Chinese tarantula...

Alternative Gene Control Mechanism Based on Organization of DNA Within Nucleus

November 23, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — Researchers at the University of Tokyo have identified how the architecture of the cell nucleus can change gene activity in plants. This discovery reveals fundamental knowledge about...

Folding of SARS-CoV2 genome reveals drug targets — and preparation for ‘SARS-CoV3’

November 23, 2020
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Frankfurt, Germany — The genetic code of the SARS-CoV2 virus is exactly 29,902 characters long, strung through a long RNA molecule. It contains the information for the production of 27 proteins. This...

Insights on a Mechanism to Stop COVID-19 Replication

November 20, 2020
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Milan, Italy — Stopping the replication of SARS-CoV-2 is likely possible thanks to a compound called EBSELEN: a group of researchers from the Politecnico di Milano has communicated aspects relevant...

Newly Discovered Enzyme Helps Make Valuable Bioactive Saponins

November 17, 2020
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Osaka, Japan — Many plants, including legumes, make naturally occurring chemicals called saponins. For example, the medicinal plant licorice produces the saponin glycyrrhizin, a potent natural sweetener...

Scientists Discover New Mechanism Controlling Brain Size

November 17, 2020
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Frederiksberg, Denmark — Under the leadership of Professor Lars Allan Larsen and Professor Søren Tvorup Christensen at University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, an international research team has taken...

New Technique Isolates Brain Cells Associated with Parkinson’s Disease

November 17, 2020
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Pittsburgh, PA — Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new technique for isolating a type of brain cell associated with Parkinson’s disease symptoms, enabling them to study...

How Brain Forms Sensory Memories

November 17, 2020
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Halle (Saale), Germany — The brain encodes information collected by our senses. However, to perceive our environment and to constructively interact with it, these sensory signals need to be interpreted...

Dissecting the Immune Characteristics of Severe COVID-19 Responses

November 16, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — A team of immunology experts from research organisations in Belgium and the UK have come together to apply their pioneering research methods to put individuals’ COVID-19 response...

Managing the Microbiome Raises New Hope for Autism

November 16, 2020
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Tempe, AZ — According to the Centers for Disease Research, 1 in 54 children is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) each year, and the number has been rising. The disease causes perplexing,...

Light Shed on the Atomic Resolution Structure of Phage DNA Tube

November 16, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — Given that phages are able to destroy bacteria, they are of particular interest to science. Basic researchers from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)...

Scientists can Now Scoop Contents of Individual Cells from Their Local Environment

November 11, 2020
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Toronto, ON — Scientists can now select individual cells from a population that grows on the surface of a laboratory dish and study their molecular contents. Developed by University of Toronto researchers,...

Genetic Eraser: Newly Developed Technology Precisely and Rapidly Degrades Targeted Proteins

November 11, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — Researchers can now more accurately and precisely target specific proteins in yeast, mammalian cells and mice to study how knocking down specific protein traits can influence physical...

Cell Ageing can be Slowed by Oxidants

November 9, 2020
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Gothenburg, Sweden — At high concentrations, reactive oxygen species – known as oxidants – are harmful to cells in all organisms and have been linked to ageing. But a study from Chalmers...

Study Reveals Strategy to Create COVID-19 Drugs to Inhibit Virus’s Entry and Replication

November 6, 2020
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Tampa FL — SARS-CoV-2, the respiratory virus that causes COVID-19, attacks the body in multiple steps. Gaining entry into cells deep within the lungs and hijacking the human host cell’s machinery...

Scientists Identify Synthetic Mini-Antibody to Combat COVID-19

November 5, 2020
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Heidelberg, Germany — The ability of SARS-CoV-2 to infect cells depends on interactions between the viral spike protein and the human cell surface protein ACE2. To enable the virus to hook onto the...

Microbial Space Travel on a Molecular Scale

November 5, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — Since the dawn of space exploration, humankind has been fascinated by survival of terrestrial life in outer space. Outer space is a hostile environment for any form of life, but some...

Unraveling Genetic Determinants of Small Vessel Vasculitis

November 4, 2020
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Tsukuba, Japan — Autoimmune disease is fundamentally a mystery: whyever should an organism systematically set out to harm itself? Now, researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified a genetic...

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