Epigenetics, a term coined by Conrad H. Waddington in the early 1940s, originally described the complex molecular pathways that govern how a genotype manifests as a phenotype. Over time, this definition has evolved to focus ...
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Mutations are the changes in the DNA that gradually occur in human cells as they replicate, and the organism grows and ages. Some of these changes, particularly when they occur in genes, can be instrumental during the development ...
Apr 10, 2024
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Just like pruning a tree helps promote proper growth, the brain uses synaptic pruning to get rid of unnecessary connections between its cells. However, when this normal process, which occurs between early childhood and adulthood, ...
Mar 23, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have identified a novel treatment approach to an aggressive type of pediatric brain cancer, using therapies already approved to treat cancer.
Nov 15, 2022
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Doctors typically treat people with non-small cell lung cancer, a prevalent and typically incurable type of cancer that makes up 80%-85% of lung cancers, with tyrosine kinase inhibitors, specifically epidermal growth factor ...
Apr 12, 2022
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Researchers in the Muir Lab at Princeton University's Department of Chemistry have completed the first comprehensive analysis of cancer-associated histone mutations in the human genome, featuring both biochemical and cellular ...
Mar 1, 2021
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Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have demonstrated that newly mutated variants of a key protein involved in supporting chromosomes result in several issues ranging from developmental delays to epilepsy ...
Dec 3, 2020
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Scientists are increasingly tracing a variety of diseases back to the so-called epigenome, a type of indexing system imposed on DNA that dictates how genes should be read by the cells. Now, a new study finds that changes ...
Nov 12, 2019
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Cancer, in all its forms, seems to always involve uncontrolled cell growth; but there are thousands of ways in which cells can lose control of their proliferation in the first place. Among a huge variety of proteins known ...
Mar 22, 2019
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A study published in Nature Communications found that an inhibitor of an enzyme called ACVR1 slows tumor growth and increases survival in an animal model of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) - the most deadly brain ...
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