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New technology improves efficacy of inflammatory bowel disease drugs

More Canadians suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) than anywhere else in the world, yet current treatments often have debilitating side effects and are not always effective.

20 May 2021

Study shows that Bubonic Plague had a long-term impact on immune gene expression

A new study shows that the Bubonic Plague has had a long-term impact on immune gene expression.

20 May 2021

Study identifies DNA alterations that underpin brain and cognitive decline in the elderly

According to a new mathematical model published recently in eLife, Alzheimer’s disease has some important similarities with healthy aging.

20 May 2021

High-fat, high-sugar diet reduces intestinal immune cell activity in mice

A team of researchers led by Thaddeus Stappenbeck discovered that a high-fat, high-sugar diet relates to reduced intestinal immune cell activity in mice.

20 May 2021

Study: Turning off molecular switch could help treat melanoma

Melanoma accounts for only about 1% of skin cancers but leads to most of the skin cancer-related deaths.

20 May 2021

Photosynthesis of Chiral Building Blocks for Drug Discovery

A new white paper, written by scientists at Liverpool ChiroChem (LCC), describes how the Asynt Illumin8 parallel photoreactor is being used to synthesise a range of new 2-Aryl N-Heterocycles.

From Asynt 19 May 2021

New study assesses total economic impact of human genomics

Human genetics and genomifefcs contributed $265 billion to the U.S. economy in 2019 and has the potential to drive significant further growth given major new areas of application, according to a new report issued today by the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG).

19 May 2021

Field-tested digital tool can help address Nepal's rice yield gaps

Rice farmers in Nepal are chronically falling short of their potential productivity. Poor rice yields are persistent across the Terai--a lowland region lying south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas that extends through southern Nepal into northern India--and existing decision support systems are failing to provide the precision required.

19 May 2021

Breast cancer survivors have higher risk of new cancer diagnosis compared to healthy individuals

A new study finds breast cancer survivors in general have higher risk of new cancer diagnosis compared to healthy individuals. The article, which appears in CANCER, states that compared to the general population in the United States, the risk of new cancer diagnoses among survivors was 20% higher for those with hormone receptor (HR) positive cancers and 44% higher for those with HR-negative cancers.

19 May 2021

Trees under stress benefit from cooperative root graft networks

The fact that the roots of trees of the same or even different species grow together and thus connect to form networks is not new. However, the exact significance of this for forest ecology is still largely unknown.

19 May 2021

Wild relatives of modern peanut plants can withstand diseases

The wild relatives of modern peanut plants have the ability to withstand disease in ways that peanut plants can't. The genetic diversity of these wild relatives means that they can shrug off the diseases that kill farmers' peanut crops, but they also produce tiny nuts that are difficult to harvest because they burrow deep in the soil.

From University of Georgia 19 May 2021

Scientists discover five unknown and novel relatives of listeria species

While examining the prevalence of listeria in agricultural soil throughout the U.S., Cornell University food scientists have stumbled upon five previously unknown and novel relatives of the bacteria.

19 May 2021

System Performance Qualification - Removing Uncertainty from Your Results

TESTA Analytical Solutions e.K. reports on widespread interest from European laboratories for performance qualifying their particle size, zeta potential and GPC/SEC instruments.

From TESTA Analytical Solutions 19 May 2021

Successful class of therapeutics attack and shut down unique and harmful genes

A potential class of therapeutics that uses synthetic nucleic acids to attack and shut down harmful genes while preventing viral spread is gathering momentum.

18 May 2021

Exposure to even low levels of lead can trigger epigenetic changes

A research team from Brazil and Portugal has identified a link between a microRNA (miRNA) and the presence of lead in an organism.

18 May 2021

Study identifies new epigenetic control pathways in multiple myeloma growth

An international group of researchers from Japan, the United States, and the UK studied the role of the histone demethylase KDM5A in multiple myeloma.

18 May 2021

Refreshers develop new DNA sequencing method

An international research team headed by Michal Hocek of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague) and Charles University and Ciara K. O'Sullivan of Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Spain have developed a novel method for labeling DNA, which in the future can be used for sequencing DNA by means of electrochemical detection.

18 May 2021

New kind of biomolecule could play a vital role in the biology of all living things

Stanford researchers have discovered a new kind of biomolecule that could play a significant role in the biology of all living things.

18 May 2021

Cells within the center of a tumor have the highest chance of spreading around the body

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute, Royal Marsden, UCL and Cruces University Hospital have found that cells from different parts of kidney tumors behave differently, and surprisingly, cells within the center of a tumor are the most aggressive and have the highest chance of spreading around the body.

18 May 2021

Microorganisms isolated from soil samples could help identify potential new antibiotics

The 57 Valencian high school students who participated in the SWICEU team’s “En busca de nuevos Fleming” project present their findings.

17 May 2021

Life Science News

New technology improves efficacy of inflammatory bowel disease drugs

Study shows that Bubonic Plague had a long-term impact on immune gene expression

Study identifies DNA alterations that underpin brain and cognitive decline in the elderly

High-fat, high-sugar diet reduces intestinal immune cell activity in mice

Study: Turning off molecular switch could help treat melanoma

Photosynthesis of Chiral Building Blocks for Drug Discovery

New study assesses total economic impact of human genomics

Field-tested digital tool can help address Nepal's rice yield gaps

Breast cancer survivors have higher risk of new cancer diagnosis compared to healthy individuals

Trees under stress benefit from cooperative root graft networks

Wild relatives of modern peanut plants can withstand diseases

Scientists discover five unknown and novel relatives of listeria species

System Performance Qualification - Removing Uncertainty from Your Results

Successful class of therapeutics attack and shut down unique and harmful genes

Exposure to even low levels of lead can trigger epigenetic changes

Study identifies new epigenetic control pathways in multiple myeloma growth

Refreshers develop new DNA sequencing method

New kind of biomolecule could play a vital role in the biology of all living things

Cells within the center of a tumor have the highest chance of spreading around the body

Microorganisms isolated from soil samples could help identify potential new antibiotics

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