The accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain is central to the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. But to the human eye, proteins that are destined to form harmful…
Category: 5. Biology
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New Discovery Improves Treatment Against Parasitic Infections
Millions of patients worldwide are infected with parasitic worms. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), helminth worms are particularly common. Helminth infections are most prevalent in warm,…
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2/3 Teens Don’t Complete Treatment for Cannabis Use Disorder
Around two-thirds of adolescents with cannabis use disorder (CUD) fail to complete rehabilitation in the US. The corresponding study was published in Pediatric Reports. The findings may be used to aid the…
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Emma’s Gene – Life Sciences | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Emma Broadbent was born nine years ago in Dallas, Texas, with distinctive facial features. From birth, she suffered from muscle weakness and breathing problems, spending her first weeks in a neonatal intensive care unit. Her doctors, unable to…
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A tiny dinosaur bone just rewrote the origin of bird flight
The evolutionary path from dinosaurs to birds included the development of a tiny wrist bone that ultimately proved crucial for stabilizing wings in flight. A new study suggests that the bone appeared in bird ancestors millions of years earlier…
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Reactivating silent genes offers hope for Rett syndrome treatment
Researchers led by UC Davis Health scientist Sanchita Bhatnagar have developed a promising gene therapy that could treat Rett syndrome. The therapy works on reactivating healthy but silent genes responsible for this rare disorder…
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Deubiquitinase USP6 stabilizes oncogenic RUNX1 fusion proteins to promote the leukemic potential and malignant progression
Bray F, Laversanne M, Sung H, Ferlay J, Siegel RL, Soerjomataram I, et al. Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. CA Cancer J Clin. 2024;74:229–63.
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Biocompatible Lossen rearrangement | Nature Catalysis
Now, Stephen Wallace and colleagues report this chemistry in the presence of microbial cells and interface it with plastic degradation and microbial metabolism to synthesize valuable compounds from waste. The researchers started their…
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Author Correction: Tripterygium wilfordii cytochrome P450s catalyze the methyl shift and epoxidations in the biosynthesis of triptonide
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate…
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Finding the lock to fit the key: Ebola virus entry
How does a virus enter a host cell? This is often one of the first questions researchers try to answer when a new virus emerges, owing to how critical viral entry is for infection to occur. Viruses cannot replicate on their own and must hijack…
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