Novel mechanisms of dengue and Zika virus infections and link to microcephaly
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine New insights into how dengue and Zika viruses cause disease reveal shared and virus-specific mechanisms. ...
Tag: Genetics
Biologists turn eavesdropping viruses into bacterial assassins
How cross-kingdom communication led to a breakthrough phage therapyCredit: Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications, Princeton University Princeton molecular biologist Bonnie ...
Drug targets for Ebola, Dengue, and Zika viruses found in lab study
Insight into how three of the world's most devastating viruses interact with human cells opens the door for much-needed treatments ...
Open science and data initiative announced for neurofibromatosis
Major research funders join together to advance research into genetic disorderCredit: Children's Tumor Foundation New York/Baltimore/Seattle - The Children's Tumor ...
Interplay between MicroRNAs and targeted genes in cellular homeostasis of adult zebrafish
The article by Dr. Gary Hardiman et al. is published in Current Genomics, Volume 19, Issue 7, 2018Credit: Dr. Gary ...
DNA find
Tiny Australian wallaby the last living link to extinct giant kangaroosCredit: Joseph Burgess A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) led ...
Genetic study of epilepsy points to potential new therapies
RCSI researchers play key role in international collaborationCredit: RCSI Monday, 10 December 2018: The largest study of its kind, led ...
Undiplomatic immunity: Mutation causing arterial autoimmune disease revealed
Credit: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) researchers reveal how a single mutation in a regulatory ...
How does cancer spread?
Researchers pinpoint a gene that affects cell-to-cell communication leading to the diseaseCredit: McGill University Health Centre Montreal, December 10 2018 ...
Potential seen for tailoring treatment for acute myeloid leukemia
Rapid drug response screening for leukemia stem cells offers clues to relapse and to improving patient-specific therapiesCredit: Alice C, Gray ...
UC San Diego researcher gets $4 million NCI award to study cancer drug resistance, spread
Credit: UC San Diego Health The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded David Cheresh, PhD, Distinguished Professor and vice chair ...
Parrot genome analysis reveals insights into longevity, cognition
Genome of blue-fronted Amazon parrot compared with 30 other long-lived birdsCredit: Glaucia Seixas PITTSBURGH--Parrots are famously talkative, and a blue-fronted ...
Parrot genome analysis reveals mutations favoring longevity and cognition
Credit: Glaucia Seixas, https://bluefrontedamazonproject.wordpress.com A genome analysis of traits in parrots and 26 other bird species revealed that parrots and ...
An ancient strain of plague may have led to the decline of Neolithic Europeans
Credit: Karl-Göran Sjögren / University of Gothenburg A team of researchers from France, Sweden, and Denmark have identified a new ...
Profiling a killer in warm blood
Israeli scientists and physicians develop a new technology for profiling the unique genetic makeup of myeloma tumor cells that will ...
Another Medical cold case cracked by the MUHC's 'Dr. House'
Team of RI-MUHC researchers discover new disease and its genetic cause in Quebec patient as 'Bubble Boy' symptoms discovered in ...
Elevated hormone flags liver problems in mice with methylmalonic acidemia
Study findings can immediately be applied to human patients with the diseaseCredit: Patricia M. Zerfas, NIH Office of Research Services. ...
Otago researchers discover information about a gene that helps define us as humans
Credit: Dr Adam O'Neill University of Otago researchers have discovered information about a gene that sets primates - great apes ...
Classifying brain microglia: Which are good and which are bad?
New study is perhaps the most comprehensive survey of brain microglia ever conductedCredit: Michael Goderre / Boston Children's Hospital Microglia ...
Postdoc in UC Riverside School of Medicine receives prestigious NIH fellowship
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Rebekah Charney, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Medicine at the University of ...
