Cancer cells' appetite for sugar may have serious consequences for immune cell function, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have learned.
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InSysBio continues to investigate the mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) using the quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) modeling approach. The QSP model describing the tau protein was published in PLOS ONE.
Feb 28, 2018
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In the first study to comprehensively track how different types of brain cells respond to the mutation that causes Huntington's disease (HD), MIT neuroscientists found that a significant cause of death for an especially afflicted ...
Jul 17, 2020
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In a recent search for gene variants associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), several affected families showed a mutation in an enzyme called protein kinase C-alpha (PKCα). Family members with this mutation had AD; those ...
Nov 28, 2022
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(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in collaboration with their colleagues from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of the ETH Zurich, describe ...
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Although natural selection is often thought of as a force that determines the adaptation of replicating organisms to their environment, Harvard researchers have found that selection also occurs at the level of neurons, which ...
Feb 26, 2015
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The lining of the intestines - the epithelium - does more than absorb nutrients from your lunch. It grows, shrinks, and adjusts the very makeup of its cells in response to whatever you just ate. And understanding that process ...
Nov 27, 2017
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A new chemical messenger that is critical in protecting the brain against Parkinson's disease has been identified by scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the ...
Mar 27, 2014
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Our brains can survive only for a few minutes without oxygen. Salk Institute researchers have now identified the timing of a dramatic metabolic shift in developing neurons, which makes them become dependent on oxygen as a ...
Jul 12, 2016
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(Medical Xpress) -- New research hopes to explain premature births and failed inductions of labour.
Dec 21, 2011
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