Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common form of muscular dystrophy, characterized by progressive muscle wasting and weakness and caused by abnormally repetitive DNA segments that are transcribed into toxic molecules ...
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Mitochondria are the power plants of cells, and they contain their own genetic material and RNA molecules. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have now discovered that ...
Jun 29, 2022
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Can screening for head and neck cancer one day be as simple as a urine or saliva test?
Jun 28, 2022
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Like many neurological diseases, there's a lot we don't understand about fragile X syndrome. But, after studying the disorder for several years, Lynne Maquat's lab knew two important things: the enzyme AKT, which plays a ...
Jun 28, 2022
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The human liver has amazing regeneration capabilities: Even if up to 70 percent of it is removed, the remaining tissue can regrow a full-sized liver within months.
Jun 27, 2022
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Columbia and MIT researchers are revealing the surprising reasons why cancer cells are often forced to rely on fat imports, a finding that could lead to new ways to understand and slow down tumor growth.
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With more than 35 million people worldwide living with the virus and nearly 2 million new cases each year, HIV remains a major global epidemic. While anti-retroviral therapy (ART) can control the infection, dormant HIV-infected ...
Jun 23, 2022
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When you take aspirin for a headache, how does the aspirin know to travel to your head and alleviate the pain?
Jun 20, 2022
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Meditation, as a religious practice or mystic experience, may be as old as humanity. Evidence of its use dates back as far as 7,000 years, and some scholars speculate it might have begun among people sitting in caves, gazing ...
Jun 17, 2022
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T cells are usually good at eliminating diseased cells, but they seem to fail when it comes to tumor cells. In JCI Insight, MDC teams led by Armin Rehm and Uta Höpken describe what inhibits this immune function, and how ...
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