GW Cancer Research Team in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, published a study that is the first of its kind to use mRNA sequencing to look at the expression ...
Feb 14, 2012
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The neurodegenerative disease ALS causes motor neuron death and paralysis. However, long before the cells die, they lose contact with muscles as their axons atrophy. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now ...
Dec 13, 2018
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Macrophages are immune cells that engulf and digest pathogens, cancer cells or cellular debris. The kidneys—like other tissues in the body—contain kidney resident macrophages, or KRMs, from the time of birth. These KRMs ...
Sep 28, 2022
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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a class of corticosteroids called glucocorticoids (GCs) has become established as one of the main treatment options, especially for severe cases, thanks to their anti-inflammatory ...
May 18, 2023
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Age may adversely affect women's fertility by impairing levels of RNA molecules which in turn alter the function of genes involved in key biological pathways during the final maturation stage of a human egg cell, according ...
Apr 28, 2021
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The population of Eric Morrow's seminar "Neurogenetics and Disease" comprises mainly undergraduates who were skipping down the halls of their elementary schools when the first drafts of human genome sequences were published. ...
Dec 7, 2011
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Using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, researchers at the University of Cologne have developed an 'aging clock' that reads the biological age of an organism directly from its gene expression, the transcriptome. ...
Mar 3, 2021
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An individual's genetic makeup, or genome, can reveal important and intimate details of his or her biology. Now, scientists are showing that RNA, the lesser-known molecular cousin of DNA, is powerful in its own right and ...
Jun 20, 2019
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An eight-gene model can help predict progression to severe dengue (SD), according to a study published online March 29 in Genome Medicine.
Apr 1, 2022
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There is a long-standing belief that colorectal cancer (CRC), which causes some 50,000 deaths in the United States each year, can be categorized into distinct molecular subtypes. In a paper published recently in the journal Genome ...
Nov 20, 2018
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