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UT Southwestern Unveils New Method for Fighting Complex Infections

Treating complex bacterial infections with customized therapies tailored to the infection and the patient is closer to reality, thanks to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

22 Mar 2024

Unraveling the Role of Gene Length in Aging

Aging may be less about specific "aging genes" and more about how long a gene is. Many of the changes associated with aging could be occurring due to decreased expression of long genes, say researchers in an opinion piece publishing March 21 in the journal Trends in Genetics.

22 Mar 2024

Bioinformatics Tool Recognizes Chromosome Changes in Cancer Cells

A group from IRB Barcelona and the University of Barcelona has created a novel bioinformatics instrument to recognize the chromosomal changes characteristic of cancerous cells.

22 Mar 2024

New Approach to Constructing Human Artificial Chromosomes Avoids Unintended Multimerization

Constructing human artificial chromosomes (HACs) in budding yeast overcomes the long-standing problem of uncontrolled multimerization – the rampant joining of similar molecules – and results in HACs that are large, stable, and structurally well-defined, researchers report.

22 Mar 2024

Decoding the Dynamics of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions

Scientists in Sweden were able to uncover the molecular mechanisms behind the development of lesions in multiple sclerosis by employing sophisticated techniques. The latest findings are detailed in the journal Cell by a team of researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University.

21 Mar 2024

Researchers Identify RNA-Regulator Brat as Key Player in Restraining Tissue Regeneration

Some animals possess the remarkable ability to regenerate lost structures, exemplified by a lizard regrowing its tail.

20 Mar 2024

Latest CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing Can Eliminate All Traces of HIV Virus From Infected Cells

New research presented early ahead of this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2024, Barcelona, 27-30 April) from a team of researchers in the Netherlands shows how the latest CRISPR-Cas gene editing technology can be used to eliminate all traces of the HIV virus from infected cells in the laboratory, raising hopes of a cure.

20 Mar 2024

Insulin Influences Mitochondrial Recycling in Neurons

The hormone insulin controls many cellular processes and adapts them to the body's current energy supply.

20 Mar 2024

Drug Candidates Show Promise to Reverse HIV's Ability to Escape Immune System Detection

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have identified drug candidates that show promise to reverse the ability of HIV to escape detection by the immune system.

20 Mar 2024

Novel Imaging Technique Unveils Structural Details of Drug-Resistant Cancer Protein

Researchers have shown for the first time that a crucial interface in a protein that drives cancer growth could act as a target for more effective treatments.

20 Mar 2024

New Research Into the Impact of Microplastics and Nanoplastics on Human Health is Urgently Required Due to ‘Significant Threat’ to Human Health

A new metastudy published in Cambridge Prisms: Plastics by Cambridge University Press, has identified a body of evidence demonstrating the negative impact of microplastics and nanoplastics (MPs and NPs) on human health and identifying the limitations of current research.

20 Mar 2024

The Assemblage of Nuclear Sub-Structures

Researchers from the lab of Rohit Pappu and associates at the Center for Biomolecular Condensates have figured out how nucleolar sub-structures are assembled, a first for the condensate field.

19 Mar 2024

Soil Bacteria Gene Discovery Offers Hope for Bioremediation Efforts

Some soil bacteria can acquire sets of genes that enable them to pump the heavy metal nickel out of their systems, a study has found.

19 Mar 2024

Targeting T Cell Metabolism to Boost Cancer Therapies

Recent findings from the lab of Jessica Thaxton, PhD, MsCR, in the UNC School of Medicine's Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, as well as associates in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center's Immunotherapy Group, have provided new insights into T-cell metabolism that may improve immunotherapies that depend on T cells to combat cancer.

18 Mar 2024

Baby Gut Bacteria Found to Play Crucial Role in Immune Development

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have shown that certain bacteria invade the stomach soon after birth and produce serotonin, a neurotransmitter that helps teach gut immune cells.

18 Mar 2024

Machine Learning Accelerates Personalized T Cell Therapy Development for Cancer Patients

Making a personalized T cell therapy for cancer patients currently takes at least six months; scientists at the German Cancer Research Center and the University Medical Center Mannheim have shown that the laborious first step of identifying tumor-reactive T cell receptors for patients can be replaced with a machine learning classifier that halves this time.

18 Mar 2024

SIRPβ1 Gene Mutation Alters Alzheimer's Disease Progression

The scientist of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Malaga José Luis Royo has coordinated a study that summarizes eight years of research and brings together 100 multidisciplinary specialists, identifying a mutation that alters Alzheimer's disease progression.

18 Mar 2024

Adhesion GPCR Mayo Plays Key Role in Midgut Development of Fruit Flies

Adhesion GPCRs belong to the large family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). There are about 700 variants in humans, which are responsible for sensory impressions, hormonal cycles, controlling the cardiovascular system and more.

18 Mar 2024

Research Uncovers Individuality in Roundworm Neural Circuits

Joint research led by Yu Toyoshima and Yuichi Iino of the University of Tokyo has demonstrated individual differences in and successfully extracted commonalities from the whole-brain activity of roundworms.

18 Mar 2024

Metabolic Insights into Immune Cell Activation and Response

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia identified a key metabolite in cells that helps direct immune responses and explains at a single cell level why immune cells that most efficiently recognize pathogens, vaccines, or diseased cells grow and divide faster than other cells.

18 Mar 2024