A group of bat viruses related to SARS-CoV-2 can also infect human cells but uses a different and unknown entryway.
Apr 8, 2022
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Prof. Liu Guanghui and his colleagues from the Institute of Zoology and the Beijing Institute of Genomics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have collaborated to find that Apolipoprotein E (APOE) destabilizes heterochromatin ...
Apr 7, 2022
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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified a key protein that induces the program to build specialized liver blood vessels. The discovery could lead to engineered replacement hepatic tissue to treat common liver ...
Mar 31, 2022
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Experts at Indiana University School of Medicine have helped identify that a common protein found in neurodegenerative diseases forms amyloid filaments in an age-dependent manner without a connection to disease.
Mar 28, 2022
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Intense light activates proteins shown to protect against lung damage in mice, a discovery that could have major therapeutic implications for treating acute lung injury in humans, according to a new study from researchers ...
Mar 24, 2022
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While vaccination and public education concerning the transmission of the coronavirus causing COVID-19 have been at the forefront of our response to the pandemic, there remains an urgent need for pharmaceutical interventions ...
Mar 24, 2022
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As scientists work toward finding a cure for Parkinson's disease, one line of research that has emerged focuses on mitochondria, the structures within cells that make energy. The health of those structures is maintained through ...
Mar 24, 2022
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Immune cells are our body's police force, but how can they reach the crime scene fast? At the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) researchers have now discovered a new protein that boosts energy production ...
Mar 23, 2022
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To treat Ebola virus infections, researchers are taking a close look at a key piece of the virus: polymerase
Mar 22, 2022
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An international team of researchers has found that some cancer cells are able to make up for a loss of tryptophan by conducting codon reassignments that allow for the production of phenylalanine "substitutants" (a word they ...
