Tag: Genetics

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The current idea about how tuberous sclerosis occurs places mTORC1, a protein complex that regulates ...

Promising results for new acute porphyria treatment

Acute porphyria is a group of uncommon diseases that can cause severe, potentially life-threatening attacks of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting ...

Study reveals the hidden contributions of women to a branch of science

Decades of research papers show how female scientists' work was overlooked From DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin to the NASA mathematicians ...

Study shows unusual microbes hold clues to early life

Cutting-edge molecular methods reveal unusual metabolism of extreme microbesCredit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, courtesy of University of California, Santa Cruz, ...

Breast cancer cells shifted into HER2 positive status with bold new strategy

Proof-of-concept study shows precision medicines could aid more people via RNA-targetingCredit: Courtesy Scripps Research JUPITER, FL -- Feb. 7, 2019 ...

Immigrant scientists lead charge in understanding human biology and disease

$250,000 in Vilcek Foundation Prizes awarded to Angelika Amon, Amit Choudhary, Jeanne T. Paz, and Mikhail G. Shapiro The Vilcek ...

Mosaic-like gene deletion and duplication pattern shaping the immune system discovered

The field of genetic sequencing has undergone a dramatic revolution over the past 20 years. In 2001 the first copy ...

Folliculin mutations disrupt embryo implantation

Folliculin gene defects are implicated in some forms of infertility, certain cancers and other cell growth disordersCredit: Jennifer Hesson New ...

Researchers develop prostate cancer prediction tool that has unmatched accuracy

Current tools used to predict prostate cancer progression are generally subjective in nature, leading to differing interpretations among clinicians New ...

Microbial manufacturing

Study unravels how microbes produce key compound used to fight cancer For decades, scientists and doctors have known that bacteria ...

Male Y chromosomes not 'genetic wastelands'

When researchers say they have sequenced the human genome, there is a caveat to this statement: a lot of the ...

How one gene in a tiny fish may alter an aquatic ecosystem

Linking genomics to evolution to ecology, the work takes an unusual approach to reveal broad implications of how species adapt ...

Nullifying protein YTHDF1 enhances anti-tumor response

Power of cancer immunotherapy expanded by improved antigen presentation Cancer immunotherapy--an approach that removes the barriers that protect cancer cells ...

See-through fish aid scientists in autism-related breakthrough