Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavirus origins: The debate flares up, but the evidence remains weak
Nearly three years since SARS-CoV-2 first emerged, we're still not certain where the virus behind COVID-19 came from.
Oct 31, 2022
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Immunology
Scientists are one step closer to an adaptation-proof COVID-19 vaccine
A vaccine design approach that could protect against new variants of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) but also potentially protects against other coronaviruses is one step closer to reality as a result of Penn ...
Oct 18, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Gene mutations should be tested routinely for ovarian cancer, say scientists
Scientists from The University of Manchester have shown that testing for two gene families linked to a lifetime epithelial ovarian cancer risk of between 5% and 20% has a much higher than expected detection rate.
Oct 4, 2022
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Genetics
Hybrid strains make insidious parasite more dangerous
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have mapped how the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi forms new variants that are more effective at evading the immune system and causing disease. Their findings can give rise to new ...
May 10, 2022
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Genetics
Retrotransposon expression is repressed in Huntington's disease
Huntington's disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease characterized by expansion of the number of trinucleotide CAG repeats in the first exon of the HTT gene encoding the protein huntingtin. While ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mechanism underlying the emergence of virus variants unravelled
An international consortium, led by Delft University of Technology and the University of North Carolina, has for the first time succeeded in probing the molecular origins of recombination in RNA viruses. Hiccups during the ...
Oct 22, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 origins still a mystery: Study finds virus was 'highly human adapted'
Scientists using computer modeling to study SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, have discovered the virus is most ideally adapted to infect human cells—rather than bat or pangolin cells, again raising ...
Jun 24, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Understanding the DNA repair toolkit to chart cancer evolution
The ongoing fight of science against cancer has made great strides, but cancer cells have not made it easy. The complexity of cancer cells and their adaptive evolutionary nature complicate the search for effective cures. ...
Feb 16, 2021
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Medical research
Findings may help close door on COVID-19
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston have discovered what may be the Achilles' heel of the coronavirus, a finding that may help close the ...
Jan 27, 2021
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Medical research
Blocking DNA repair enzyme could help treat certain cancers
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found a new way to prevent some tumors from repairing their own DNA, a function that is essential for cancer cell survival. This discovery could lead to much needed new treatments ...
Dec 16, 2020
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