New research at the University of Chicago has found differences in immune pathway activation to influenza infection between individuals of European and African genetic ancestry. Many of the genes that were associated with ...
Nov 25, 2021
0
175
Among the populations most significantly affected by COVID-19 are the elderly and patients with preexisting medical conditions including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease and chronic ...
Nov 8, 2021
0
14
How would you go about solving a puzzle if you didn't know what pieces to use, how many you would need, how it was supposed to look when you were done or what possible function it would serve?
Oct 18, 2021
0
2
The NHS has very recently approved a new cholesterol-lowering jab which will be offered to 300,000 people over the next three years.
Sep 10, 2021
0
3
In a major advancement in the field of gene therapy for rare and devastating diseases, researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a "dimmer switch" system that can control levels of proteins ...
Jul 28, 2021
0
294
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine used an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to sift through terabytes of gene expression data—which genes are "on" or "off" during infection—to look ...
Jun 11, 2021
0
25
Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a proof-of-concept treatment for blood disorders like sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia that could raise hemoglobin levels by activating production ...
Jun 1, 2021
0
6
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have shed new light on how our brains develop, revealing that the very last step in cell division is crucial for the brain to reach its proper size and function.
May 28, 2021
0
14
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) report the formation of human cells containing a green fluorescent protein or GFP (one of the most important proteins in biology and fluorescence imaging) genetically ...
May 18, 2021
0
4
A recent study from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has identified a set of molecular biomarkers that can be used in the differential diagnosis of acute bacterial and viral infections. These biomarkers are different ...
May 17, 2021
0
3
