Researchers have for the first time created an integrated single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) atlas of the human periodontium, the specialized tissues in the mouth that connect teeth to the underlying bone. This atlas will ...
Jun 14, 2024
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Immune system cells called macrophages play an unexpected role in the complicated connection between obesity and cancer, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center-led research team has discovered.
Jun 12, 2024
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Cambridge scientists have grown 'mini-guts' in the lab to help understand Crohn's disease, showing that 'switches' that modify DNA in gut cells play an important role in the disease and how it presents in patients.
Jun 10, 2024
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A team of medical researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Ophthalmic Bioinformatics has found further evidence that regular consumption of melatonin reduces ...
Frontotemporal dementia is a currently incurable brain disease causing memory loss, speech disorders, and changes in personality. In 5–12% of cases, a decline in progranulin triggers the disease. The loss of this protein ...
Jun 7, 2024
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When we learn something new, our brain cells (neurons) communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals. If the same group of neurons communicate together often, the connections between them get stronger. ...
Jun 7, 2024
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In a busy hospital waiting room, a young man's muscles began contracting in a harsh, unyielding spasm as a quick-acting student rushed to his aid.
Jun 6, 2024
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A novel gene therapy designed to target a form of inherited deafness has restored hearing function in five children who were treated in both ears. The children also experienced better speech perception and gained the ability ...
Jun 5, 2024
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Maternal obesity impacts the eating behaviors of offspring via long-term overexpression of the microRNA miR-505-5p, according to a study publishing June 4 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Laura Dearden and Susan ...
Jun 4, 2024
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TREX1 is a gene that is supposed to direct the maintenance of the entire body's DNA, but new research shows that when people are born with mutated TREX1, it causes catastrophic damage to the DNA over time, resulting in a ...
Jun 4, 2024
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