A review published in the journal Molecular Biomedicine provides a comprehensive overview of the METTL family, a group of methyltransferase-like proteins crucial for cellular function. METTL family members are widely distributed ...
Aug 20, 2024
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Respiratory infections can be severe—even deadly—in some individuals, but not in others. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and other collaborators ...
Aug 12, 2024
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A research group at the University of Bologna has identified, for the first time, the specific location and genomic context where DNA breaks occur due to the inhibition of the topoisomerase I, a protein crucial for many biological ...
Aug 8, 2024
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most prevalent malignancies globally and is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths. The primary curative treatments for HCC are liver transplantation, hepatectomy, and ...
Jul 16, 2024
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Researchers from TGen, part of City of Hope, and from the University of California, San Diego have identified a set of genes that helps predict whether a patient's glioblastoma might respond to some promising drugs called ...
Jul 10, 2024
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Even though COVID-19 manifests as a mild and short-lived disease in most people, some suffer extremely severe symptoms; in the worst cases, these patients die due to complications such as respiratory failure or thromboembolism. ...
Jun 19, 2024
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Approximately one in every 20,000 to 40,000 children born in Japan and about one in every 100,000 throughout the world bear a mutation in the WRN gene. This gene is responsible for producing the Werner protein, which belongs ...
Jun 12, 2024
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A new review has found that taking zinc may help to reduce the duration of common cold symptoms by about two days, but the evidence is not conclusive and potential benefits must be balanced against side effects. The article ...
May 8, 2024
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A team of University of Minnesota researchers found that metformin, a drug commonly used to treat diabetes, can decrease the amount of COVID-19 virus in the body and lower the chances of the virus coming back strongly after ...
May 2, 2024
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An international collaborative research team, including scientists from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), has discovered a novel mechanism underlying memory involving rapid changes in a specific DNA structure.
Apr 19, 2024
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