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RNA Structures by the Thousands

June 18, 2020
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Bochum, Germany — Researchers from Bochum and Münster have developed a new method to determine the structures of all RNA molecules in a bacterial cell at once. In the past, this had to be done individually...

Latest Findings on Bitter Substances in Coffee

June 18, 2020
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Freising, Germany — Coffee is very popular around the world despite or perhaps because of its bitter taste. Compounds contained in the coffee such as caffeine contribute to the bitterness to varying...

Intracellular Biopsy Technique for Fast MicroRNAs Profiling in Living Cells

June 11, 2020
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Hong Kong, China — MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are gaining more attention in researches of different human diseases (e.g. cancer) because changes in miRNA expression are frequently associated with abnormal...

New Technology will Show How RNA Regulates Gene Activity

May 19, 2020
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — The discovery of a huge number of long non-protein coding RNAs, aka lncRNAs, in the mammalian genome was a major surprise of the recent large-scale genomics projects. An international...

The Exposome: When Our Environment Drives Health and Disease

May 18, 2020
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Luxembourg City, Luxembourg — Science, has published in its January issue two papers by Associate Prof. Emma Schymanski, Head of the Environmental Cheminformatics research group at the University of...

Computer Modelling Reveals Behaviour of Individual Lipid Molecules

May 12, 2020
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Moscow Oblast, Russia — Lipids are essential building blocks of cell membranes, which control the exchange of substances and energy between a cell and its environment. Developed at the Moscow Institute...

DNA Damage and Faulty Repair Jointly Cause Mutations

May 4, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Researchers at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the University of Dundee and the Wellcome Sanger Institute analysed over 2700 genomes from C. elegans worms...

Scientists Discover How Multiple RNA Elements Control MicroRNA Biogenesis

April 23, 2020
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Hong Kong, China — In humans (as well as all other organisms) genes encode proteins, which in turn regulate all the different specific cellular functions of the body. The genetic information found...

Scientist Unlocks New Way to Understand Evolving Strains of SARS-CoV-2

April 21, 2020
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York, UK — Researchers from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have unveiled a new approach to analysing the genetic codes – or the blueprint – of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that...

Transposable Elements Play Important Role in Genetic Expression and Evolution

April 16, 2020
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Ann Arbor, MI — Until recently, little was known about how transposable elements contribute to gene regulation. These are little pieces of DNA that can replicate themselves and spread out in the genome....

World’s Largest Map of Protein Connections Holds Clues to Health and Disease

April 9, 2020
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Toronto, ON — The human body is composed of billions of cells, each of which is made and maintained through countless interactions among its molecular parts. But which interactions sustain health and...

Learning How Cancer Cells Coordinate and Collaborate to Multiply and Metastasize

March 16, 2020
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Osaka, Japan — Cancer cells are known to migrate and collaborate to form networks that function as conduits providing access to nutrients and blood vessels. Now, researchers in Japan have generated...

Not Only What You Eat, But How You Eat, may Affect Your Microbiome

March 5, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — The importance of the microorganisms that live on and in our bodies has long been recognized, and their complex synergistic impact on our systemic health is elucidated. Now, researchers...

New Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Lung Cancer, Researchers Identify

February 25, 2020
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Málaga, Spain — Applying bioinformatics to resolve biological problems. This is the objective of the research group of the University of Malaga “BI4NEXT”, which, in one of its latest studies,...

Computer Simulations Visualize How DNA is Recognized to Convert Cells into Stem Cells

February 18, 2020
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Swansea, Wales — Researchers of the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW – The Netherlands) and the Max Planck Institute in Münster (Germany) have revealed how an essential protein helps to activate genomic...

Artificial Intelligence Finds Disease-Related Genes

February 17, 2020
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Linköping, Sweden — An artificial neural network can reveal patterns in huge amounts of gene expression data, and discover groups of disease-related genes. This has been shown by a new study led by...

Huge Bacteria-Eating Viruses Close Gap Between Life and Non-Life

February 13, 2020
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Berkeley, CA — Scientists have discovered hundreds of unusually large, bacteria-killing viruses with capabilities normally associated with living organisms, blurring the line between living microbes...

Chromothripsis in Human Cancer

February 6, 2020
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Heidelberg, Germany — Researchers at Harvard Medical School and EMBL-EBI have carried out the largest analysis across cancer types of the newly discovered mutational phenomenon chromothripsis. This...

Heart Muscle Cells Change Their Energy Source During Heart Regeneration

February 6, 2020
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Utrecht, Netherlands — Researchers from the group of Jeroen Bakkers at the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) have found that the muscle cells in the heart of zebrafish change their metabolism, the way in which...

AI-Analyzed Blood Test can Predict Progression of Neurodegenerative Disease

January 28, 2020
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Montreal, Canada — Evaluating the effectiveness of therapies for neurodegenerative diseases is often difficult because each patient’s progression is different. A new study shows artificial intelligence...

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