MeSH tree: G05.308.203
In 1982, the Syrian government besieged the city of Hama, killing tens of thousands of its own citizens in sectarian violence. Four decades later, rebels used the memory of the massacre to help inspire the toppling of the ...
Feb 27, 2025
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and complex class of genetic diseases caused by defects in a relatively large region of the genome.
Feb 13, 2025
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An international team of scientists has uncovered new insights into how the previously understudied duplicate X chromosome in women may contribute to Alzheimer's disease risk, according to a multicenter study published in ...
Jan 7, 2025
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A deep learning artificial intelligence model developed at Washington State University can identify pathology, or signs of disease, in images of animal and human tissue much faster, and often more accurately, than people.
Nov 14, 2024
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Since its discovery in 1998 and winning the Nobel Prize in 2006, ribonucleic acid (RNA) interference has become an invaluable tool for drugmakers to silence disease-causing genes. Nearly three decades later, drug makers have ...
Nov 13, 2024
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A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KI University Hospital shows that radiotherapy (RT) creates an "epigenetic memory" in skin fibroblasts, which impairs skin healing in cancer survivors. They also found ...
Oct 30, 2024
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Immune cells use two different routes to produce acetyl-CoA, an essential metabolite required to fight infection and cancer, reports a study led by Van Andel Institute scientists.
Aug 22, 2024
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When we form a new memory, the brain undergoes physical and functional changes known collectively as a "memory trace." A memory trace represents the specific patterns of activity and structural modifications of neurons that ...
Jul 25, 2024
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an array that assesses methylation levels of genes located in imprint control regions (ICRs) within the human genome. The array represents a cost-effective, ...
Jul 25, 2024
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In Huntington's disease, the mutant huntingtin gene (HTT) mRNA is retained in the nucleus and forms insoluble clusters. A new study shows that short interfering RNA (siRNA), an oligonucleotide therapeutic strategy that reduces ...
Jul 22, 2024
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