The waste system of living cells, the proteasome, not only shreds disused or damaged proteins, it also supports the immune system by recognizing virally infected or cancerous cells by producing protein fragments, so-called ...
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Scientists attacking the problem of high miscarriage rates have long wondered if there is a way to tell whether an egg cell will successfully develop into an embryo and grow or if there is a marker indicating when it is destined ...
Dec 5, 2023
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Work by researchers at The University of Western Australia could revolutionise testing for Type 1 diabetes around the world.
Mar 11, 2013
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Advances in artificial intelligence have enabled the development and application of AI tools that may be effective at detecting heart valvular disease and predicting the risk of cardiovascular disease events, according to ...
Nov 6, 2023
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have significantly enhanced the capabilities of a computational model that simulates the movement of individual cancer cells across long distances within the entire human body.
Nov 27, 2023
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Decades of research and three large-scale clinical trials have so far failed to yield an effective HIV vaccine, in large part because the virus evolves so rapidly that it can evade any vaccine-induced immune response.
Mar 21, 2013
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Activity from phony Twitter accounts established by the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) between 2015 and 2017 may have contributed to politicizing Americans' position on the nature and efficacy of vaccines, a health ...
Apr 1, 2020
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During the coronavirus pandemic, scientists were in a hurry to find drugs that would help fight the disease. To combine the research that was being carried out around the world, Ph.D. candidate Judith ter Schure developed ...
Apr 6, 2022
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(Medical Xpress)—UC Irvine biologists, chemists and computer scientists have identified an elusive pocket on the surface of the p53 protein that can be targeted by cancer-fighting drugs. The finding heralds a new treatment ...
Jan 31, 2013
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During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, multiple new and more transmissible variants of the virus have emerged. Understanding how specific mutations affect SARS-CoV-2 transmission could help us to better understand the biology of ...
Feb 7, 2022
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