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The Triple Threat of Coronavirus

May 14, 2021
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London, UK — Severe symptoms of COVID-19, leading often to death, are thought to result from the patient’s own acute immune response rather than from damage inflicted directly by the virus. Immense...

How the Body Builds a Healthy Relationship with ‘Good’ Gut Bacteria

May 13, 2021
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Salt Lake City, UT — Our body’s relationship with bacteria is complex. While infectious bacteria can cause illness, our gut is also teaming with “good” bacteria that aids nutrition...

Tiny Amino Acid Differences can Lead to Dramatically Different Enzymes

May 13, 2021
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Brisbane, Australia — Just a few changes to an enzyme’s amino acids can be enough to dramatically change its function, enabling microbes to inhabit wildly different environments. University...

Researchers Find Target to Fight Antibiotic Resistance

May 12, 2021
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Athens, GA — Gram-negative bacteria are the bane of health care workers’ existence. They’re one of the most dangerous organisms to become infected with–and one of the hardest to...

Surprising Evolutionary History of Our Oral Bacteria

May 11, 2021
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Jena, Germany — Living in and on our bodies are trillions of microbial cells belonging to thousands of bacterial species – our microbiome. These microbes play key roles in human health, but little...

Rare Genetic Disease Caused by Mutations in Protein that Controls RNA Metabolism

May 10, 2021
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Pittsburgh, PA — In a paper published today in Nature Communications, an international group of collaborators led by researchers at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh have identified a genetic...

Winning Gene Combination Takes All

May 10, 2021
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Norwich, UK — Researchers have traced the remaining last steps of the biological pathway that gives oats resistance to the deadly crop disease take-all. The discovery creates opportunities for...

Stop the Genetic Presses!

May 10, 2021
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State College, PA — The protein, known as NusG, pauses the transcription machinery at specific DNA sequences to facilitate what is called “intrinsic termination” and prevent unwanted transcription...

Tropical Ginger Treatment for Blocking Inflammation

May 10, 2021
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Ikoma, Japan — Many natural compounds have various anti-inflammatory and other beneficial properties that humans have been utilizing for medicinal purposes for hundreds of years. However, the specific...

Cells are more Resilient to Environmental Changes than Previously Thought

May 7, 2021
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Toronto, ON — Cells are more resilient to environmental perturbations than previously thought, Toronto researchers have found. The finding will enable scientists to translate observations of the effects...

How Plants Find Their Symbiotic Partners

May 5, 2021
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Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany — What would it be like to produce fertilizer in your own basement? Leguminous plants, like peas, beans, and various species of clover, obtain the organic nitrogen they...

A Milestone in Muscular Dystrophy Therapy

May 4, 2021
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Berlin, Germany — Muscle stem cells enable our muscle to build up and regenerate over a lifetime through exercise. But if certain muscle genes are mutated, the opposite occurs. In patients suffering...

A Case for Simplifying Gene Nomenclature Across Different Organisms

April 29, 2021
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New York, NY — Constantina Theofanopoulou wanted to study oxytocin. Her graduate work had focused on how the hormone influences human speech development, and now she was preparing to use those findings...

RNA Scientists Identify Many Genes Involved in Neuron Development

April 28, 2021
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Ann Arbor, MI — Neurons result from a highly complex and unique series of cell divisions. For example, in fruit flies, the process starts with stem cells that divide into mother cells (progenitor cells),...

Dietary Amino Acid Determines the Fate of Cancer Cells

April 27, 2021
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Tokyo, Japan — A research group at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) has discovered molecular events that determine whether cancer cells live or die. With this knowledge, they...

SARS-CoV-2 Curtails Immune Response in the Gut

April 27, 2021
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Cambridge, UK — In an effort to determine the potential for COVID-19 to begin in a person’s gut, and to better understand how human cells respond to SARS-CoV-2, the scientists used human intestinal...

Normally Harmless Cell Molecule Triggers Neuron Death

April 27, 2021
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Beijing, China — A vital intermediate in normal cell metabolism is also, in the right context, a trigger for cell death, according to a new study from Wanli Liu and Yonghui Zhang of Tsinghua University,...

Researchers Uncover Activation Mechanism of a Cell Growth Protein that can Trigger Cancer

April 26, 2021
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Saarbrücken, Germany — There are many different types of cancer, but they all have one thing in common: errors in the signals that control normal cell behaviour can cause uncontrolled cell growth and...

VR Visualization Supports Research on Molecular Networks

April 26, 2021
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Wien, Austria — Networks offer a powerful way to visualize and analyze complex systems. However, depending on the size and complexity of the network, many visualizations are limited. Protein interactions...

Scientists Provide New Insights into the Citric Acid Cycle

April 23, 2021
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Münster, Germany — The citric acid cycle is an important metabolic pathway that enables living organisms to generate energy by degrading organic compounds into carbon dioxide (CO2). The first step...

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