Neuroscience

Toxic protein 'variant' may be the next target for ALS therapies

Scientists have long known that proteins can form harmful clusters in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). But a new study by Penn State researchers ...

Oncology & Cancer

Anti-cancer drug profiling with CancerOmicsNet

As documented in a new research paper published in Oncotarget, researchers from Louisiana State University have developed CancerOmicsNet—a graph neural network model to predict the growth rate of a cancer cell line after ...

Medical research

Navigating from the genome to the clinic using 'cell maps'

Breast cancer, COVID-19, and autism may seem unrelated, but they share some surprising connections. Some of the same genes that are mutated in breast cancer also get hijacked by COVID-19, and some other genes mutated in cancer ...

Gerontology & Geriatrics

Study reveals roadmap of muscle decline with age

Scientists have produced a comprehensive roadmap of muscle aging in mice that could be used to find treatments that prevent decline in muscle mobility and function, according to a report published today in eLife.

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