Tag: Molecular Biology

October 26, 2019

Credit: Photo by Derrick Turner EAST LANSING, Mich. - Scientific breakthroughs don't always happen in labs. For Sophia and Richard ...

Dynamic images show rhomboid protease in action

October 26, 2019

Credit: Barth van Rossum, FMP Rhomboid proteases are clinically relevant membrane proteins that play a key role in various diseases. ...

New organelle that helps prevent cancer discovered in our cells

Could lead to better treatments, spare patients ones that won't workCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Scientists at the University of ...

Scientists discover link between unique brain cells and OCD and anxiety

Mice with dysfunctional microglia exhibited OCD behaviors, and female sex hormones drove symptom severity and added anxietyCredit: Dimitri Traenkner According ...

Scientists discovered mechanisms that protect tapeworms from being digested by their host

Credit: FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute A team of scientists from Tyumen together with colleagues found and described previously ...

Machine learning’s next frontier: Epigenetic drug discovery

Sanford Burnham Prebys scientists create a machine-learning algorithm that automates high-throughput screens of epigenetic medicinesCredit: Sanford Burnham Prebys LA JOLLA, ...

Stephan Grupp, MD, PhD, elected to National Academy of Medicine

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia physician-scientist receives outstanding honor in medicine for work in cell and gene therapyCredit: Children's Hospital of ...

Salk scientists receive $12.9 million from NIH BRAIN Initiative

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(October 21, 2019) Salk Institute scientists Nicola Allen, Eiman Azim, Margarita Behrens, and Joseph Ecker have ...

Beverly Davidson, PhD, elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Neuroscientist and gene therapy expert at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia receives outstanding honor in medicineCredit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Beverly ...

New CRISPR genome editing system offers a wide range of versatility in human cells

'Prime editing' combines two key proteins and a new RNA to make targeted insertions, deletions, and all possible single-letter changes ...

Silencing RNA nanotherapy shows promise against pancreatic cancer

A Washington University-University of South Florida preclinical study finds that the novel nanoparticle delivers gene-level treatment to suppress KRAS-driven cancer ...

SciLifeLab and AstraZeneca use cryo-EM to advance biomedicine

Research team of Alexey Amunts in collaboration with AstraZeneca unravel the extracellular region of the receptor tyrosine kinase RET involved ...

Data mining applied to scholarly publications to finally reveal Earth’s biodiversity

Credit: P Kishor (Plazi) At a time when a million species are at risk of extinction, according to a recent ...

Salk scientists awarded $14.3 million to map circuitry for movement