Genetics
Policing protein restrains genes to enable healthy development
Melbourne scientists have shown for the first time how a protein called SMCHD1 helps to police healthy development in the body.
Aug 21, 2018
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Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
Medical research
Byproducts of 'junk DNA' implicated in cancer spread
The more scientists explore so-called "junk" DNA, the less the label seems to fit.
Aug 14, 2018
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Toward a better understanding of Parkinson's disease
A new study, published today in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, moves researchers closer to understanding one of the crucial proteins involved in Parkinson's disease.
Jul 4, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Preserving fertility during chemotherapy
Many chemotherapeutics act by damaging the DNA. Since cancer cells divide more often than most normal cells, they are more sensitive to DNA-damaging agents. One exception are oocytes. To prevent birth defects, they initiate ...
Apr 18, 2018
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Genetics
Keeping egg cells fresh with epigenetics
Keeping egg cells in stasis during childhood is a key part of female fertility. New research published today in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology sheds some light on the role of epigenetics in placing egg cells into ...
Jan 1, 2018
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Immunology
Study opens new drug therapy targets in a range of diseases
Scientists have a better understanding of the immune system at a molecular level, thanks to University of Queensland-led research that may now lead to a range of new treatments for disease.
Jul 31, 2017
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Neuroscience
Drug discovery: Alzheimer's and Parkinson's spurred by same enzyme
Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are not the same. They affect different regions of the brain and have distinct genetic and environmental risk factors.
Jul 3, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Freeze-frames of enzymes in action have implications for a new cancer treatment concept
Over millions of years of evolution, cells have developed myriad ways of regulating the processes that enable them to thrive. Especially useful tools have been saved, or "conserved," over the eons, so that today we can find ...
Jul 3, 2017
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Immunology
Understanding how HIV evades the immune system
Monash University (Australia) and Cardiff University (UK) researchers have come a step further in understanding how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) evades the immune system.
Feb 21, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers provide molecular portraits of a new cancer drug target
Unprecedented images of cancer genome-mutating enzymes acting on DNA provide vital clues into how the enzymes work to promote tumor evolution and drive poor disease outcomes. These images, revealed by University of Minnesota ...
Dec 19, 2016
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