(Medical Xpress)—High school biology taught us that we inherit certain traits from our parents that are pre-determined. But what if you could change how these genes play out by taking certain drugs or better yet, just changing ...
Sep 16, 2014
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Salad is popular with people who want to maintain a balanced and healthy diet. Salad varieties are often offered for sale ready-cut and film-packaged. It is known that these types of fresh produce may be contaminated with ...
Nov 16, 2018
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A new type of antibiotic called a PPMO, which works by blocking genes essential for bacterial reproduction, successfully killed a multidrug-resistant germ common to health care settings, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers ...
Oct 15, 2013
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New Swedish research shows that plasmids containing genes that confer resistance to antibiotics can be enriched by very low concentrations of antibiotics and heavy metals. These results strengthen the suspicion that the antibiotic ...
Oct 7, 2014
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Excessive sugar and fat in the diet can lead to hepatic (liver) insulin resistance. Often seen in people who are obese, hepatic insulin resistance leads to unhealthy levels of fatty lipids in the liver and is a risk factor ...
Oct 24, 2019
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Researchers from the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (VIGG) and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have established a catalog of mutations in 319 virulence genes ...
May 17, 2017
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The tumor biomarker research team from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently reported that DMDRMR/miR-378a-5p/ DAB2IP axis promotes angiogenesis and sunitinib ...
May 25, 2022
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An international team led by researchers from MacCallum Cancer Center in Melbourne, Australia, examined 391 tumor tissues from about 270 multisite autopsy samples collected from 15 individuals with end-stage high-grade serous ...
Obesity often leads to insulin resistance, a hallmark of type 2 diabetes. The anti-diabetic drug rosiglitazone counters insulin resistance in diabetic patients by targeting PPARγ, a nuclear receptor that senses hormones ...
Feb 27, 2017
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(Medical Xpress)—An interdisciplinary team of researchers has dissected a case of synergy in drug-resistant chronic myeloid leukemia to understand the mechanism by which two drugs, danusertib and bosutinib, work together ...
Oct 24, 2012
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