Researchers from the University of Minnesota have discovered that a protein associated with metabolism, and formerly recognized as a potential therapeutic target for ovarian cancer, may instead be associated with a better ...
Jul 20, 2022
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Yvonne Chen engineers immune cells to target their most evasive enemy: cancer. New cancer immunotherapies generate immune cells that are effective killers of blood cancers, but they have a hard time with solid tumors. Chen, ...
Feb 18, 2020
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Researchers from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute in Melbourne have identified two new genes linked to a major cause of mitochondrial disease. Their research opens the way for better genetic diagnosis of the disease ...
Sep 15, 2016
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a potential target for treating diabetes and obesity.
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John Chappell, a cardiovascular scientist in the Center for Vascular and Heart Research at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, didn't quite believe what he was seeing.
Aug 24, 2023
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Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up as either XX or XY in every cell of the body. People with XX chromosomes typically ...
Mar 21, 2022
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One might think that the primary cause of most genetically linked diseases comes from mutations in coding DNA—alterations in coding regions of the genome that can lead directly to changes in the expression of particular ...
Nov 15, 2019
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Brain inflammation can rapidly disrupt our ability to retrieve complex memories of similar but distinct experiences, according to UC Irvine neuroscientists Jennifer Czerniawski and John Guzowski.
Sep 12, 2014
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Researchers have uncovered 30 genes that could, one day, serve as therapeutic targets to reverse Rett syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that affects only girls and is a severe form of an autism spectrum disorder.
Jan 30, 2017
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Scientists have discovered that a non-invasive technique which could one day be used to treat Parkinson's disease, can successfully target a highly specific group of brain cells which play a key role in development of the ...
Jan 22, 2020
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