Ravindra Singh has spent years studying a gene that, when missing or mutated, causes spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a deadly disease that's among the most common genetic disorders in children. His team's latest work will ...
Mar 13, 2024
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Epigenetic processes allow different cell types to emerge from a single genome. Throughout development, cells differentiate and acquire distinct characteristics by expressing the same genome in different ways.
Mar 12, 2024
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A recent University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences uncovers a critical pathway involved in immune evasion by breast cancer cells.
Mar 12, 2024
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Tumors can carry mutations in hundreds of different genes, and each of those genes may be mutated in different ways—some mutations simply replace one DNA nucleotide with another, while others insert or delete larger sections ...
Mar 12, 2024
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Every year, more than 20,000 people in Germany die of blood cancer. It is the most common type of cancer in children. Donations of stem cells from blood or bone marrow increase the chance of survival for people suffering ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Adult stem cells have attracted great scientific interest because of their ability to self-renew and differentiate into other cell types. In an article published in Nature Communications, researchers reveal a new mechanism ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Daughters inherit two X chromosomes (one from the mother and one from the father), while sons inherent an X chromosome only from the mother. In new research published in Molecular Cell, investigators at Massachusetts General ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Chronic kidney disease is a condition where your kidneys lose their ability to filter waste and fluid from your blood. This can lead to serious health problems such as heart disease, stroke and kidney failure.
Mar 8, 2024
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Cancer cells are characterized by their aggressiveness: they grow rapidly and spread to other parts of the body. To enable this, numerous mechanisms come into play, and one of them involves a protein called MYC, which activates ...
Mar 7, 2024
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A team from Nagoya University in Japan has identified previously unidentified gene variants that are associated with the development of generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP). The team's findings, published in the Journal of ...
Mar 7, 2024
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