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Maintaining Balance in the Brain

October 20, 2021
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San Francisco, CA — With the school year well on its way, we all recognize the importance of getting students energized. However, we also know that overstimulated children can wreak havoc on a classroom,...

So-Called Junk DNA Plays Critical Role in Mammalian Development

October 19, 2021
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Berkeley, CA — Nearly half of our DNA has been written off as junk, the discards of evolution: sidelined or broken genes, viruses that got stuck in our genome and were dismembered or silenced, none...

Scientists Assemble a Biological Clock in a Test Tube to Study How It Works

October 8, 2021
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Santa Cruz, CA — Daily cycles in virtually every aspect of our physiology are driven by biological clocks (also called circadian clocks) in our cells. The cyclical interactions of clock proteins keep...

Dynamic Twists and Loops can Enable DNA to Modulate Its Function

October 1, 2021
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Houston, TX — When people think of DNA, they visualize a string-like double helix structure. In reality, the DNA double helix in cells is supercoiled and constrained into loops. This supercoiling and...

Watching SARS-CoV-2 Spread in Animal Models in Real Time

September 30, 2021
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San Antonio, TX — A version of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, has been successfully modified to glow brightly in cells and animal tissues, providing a real-time way to track the...

ADHD and Impulsivity: New Potential Targets to Approach the Treatment for Neuropsychiatric Disorders

September 29, 2021
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Barcelona, Spain — A study published in the journal Pharmacological Research describes the existence of a complex built by dopamine and noradrenergic receptors that could be a therapeutic target of...

Phosphatidylglycerol-DNA Complex Shown as a Stable Structure

September 29, 2021
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Kazan, Russia — An interaction of DNA with lipids is of great interest because of their functions. As fatty acids and lipids can specifically bind to nucleic acids forming a code sequence of the genomic...

Eating Less Fat may Save Your Hair

September 24, 2021
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Tokyo, Japan — It’s well known that obesity is linked to the development of numerous diseases in humans. Heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments are extremely common in obese individuals. However,...

How Resistant Germs Transport Toxins at Molecular Level

September 24, 2021
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Düsseldorf, Germany — Micro-organism resistance to antibiotics in particular is a major problem in everyday medicine. This has seen the number of resistant microbes increase exponentially. As a result,...

Study Reveals How Ribosomes are Assembled in Human Cells

September 23, 2021
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New York, NY — All cells need ribosomes to make the proteins necessary for life. These multi-component molecular machines build complex proteins by stitching building blocks together according to instructions...

Programming Synthetic Exosomes to Optimize Wound Healing

September 16, 2021
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Munich, Germany — Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and colleagues at the DWI Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Aachen have engineered synthetic...

Cancer Immunotherapy Gets PIP Boost

September 14, 2021
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Kyoto, Japan — A synthetic molecular code shows promise towards improving the response of some cancer patients to immunotherapy treatments. The approach involves using a molecule that can provide energy...

Discovery About Cells’ ‘Batteries’ Boosts Battle Against Many Diseases

September 10, 2021
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Charlottesville, VA — A top exercise researcher at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has revealed how our bodies ensure the proper functioning of the powerhouses of our cells. The findings...

Enzyme could be Major Driver of Preeclampsia

September 10, 2021
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Dallas, TX — A new study by UT Southwestern scientists indicates that an enzyme called protein phosphatase 2 (PP2A) appears to be a major driver of preeclampsia, a dangerous pregnancy complication...

Research Uncovers New Mechanism that Promotes Wound Healing in Skin

September 9, 2021
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Irvine, CA — A University of California, Irvine-led study identifies a new molecular pathway that promotes the healing of wounds in the skin. Titled, “GRHL3 activates FSCN1 to relax cell-cell adhesions...

Researchers Develop an In-Vitro Vesicle Formation Assay to Reveal Mechanistic Insights into the Secretory Pathway

September 8, 2021
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Hong Kong, China — Scientists from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed an in-vitro vesicle formation assay, shedding...

Researchers Engineer a Mini CRISPR System that could be Easier to Deliver into Cells

September 8, 2021
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Stanford, CA — A compact and efficient CRISPR-Cas system, named CasMINI, could be broadly useful for cell-engineering and gene-therapy applications because it is easier to deliver into cells. The findings...

Understanding a Nanomuscle

September 6, 2021
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Kanazawa, Japan — Cells in the human body constantly receive substances from the outside via a process called endocytosis. One important endocytosis pathway involves the formation of a protrusion...

Deleting DNA to Treat Mitochondrial Diseases

September 2, 2021
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Kyoto, Japan — Mutant DNA sequences inside cellular mitochondria can be eliminated using a bespoke chemical compound. The approach, developed by scientists at Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated...

Taking the Pain Out of Kidney Stone Analysis

September 1, 2021
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Osaka, Japan — Up to 15% of people will experience kidney stones, and for 50% of those that do, they will recur. It is therefore important to understand as much as possible about how kidney stones...

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