Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have uncovered new clues that add to the growing understanding of how female mammals, including humans, 'silence' one X chromosome. Their new study, published in Molecular ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 15, 2021
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A new study shows that many abnormalities in fragile X syndrome cells are related to glitches with one of the body's major quality control systems. Published in Nature Cell Biology, the research provides fresh insight into ...
Biotechnology
Feb 2, 2021
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Researchers used single-molecule imaging to compare the genome-editing tools CRISPR-Cas9 and TALEN. Their experiments revealed that TALEN is up to five times more efficient than CRISPR-Cas9 in parts of the genome, called ...
Biotechnology
Jan 27, 2021
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Sometimes, when something is broken, the first step to fixing it is to break it even more.
Biotechnology
Jun 22, 2020
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The circadian clock controls a variety of biological phenomena that occur during the course of the day, such as sleeping and waking. Perturbation of the circadian clock has been associated with many diseases such as sleep ...
Biochemistry
Apr 1, 2020
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Expansions of DNA repeats are very hard to analyze. A method developed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin allows for a detailed look at these previously inaccessible regions of the ...
Biotechnology
Nov 22, 2019
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Biomedical scientists at KU Leuven have unraveled parts of a mechanism that may one day help to treat Rett syndrome and other genetic disorders linked to the X chromosome.
Biotechnology
Sep 12, 2019
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Duke University scientists have caught the first glimpse of molecules shuttling along a sort of highway running the length of neural stem cells, which are crucial to the development of new neurons.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 1, 2016
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HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is the retrovirus that leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. Globally, about 35 million people are living with HIV, which constantly adapts and mutates creating challenges ...
Biochemistry
Jul 1, 2015
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It turns out that your messenger RNA may catch more than one ride to get where it's going.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 25, 2013
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