Category: 5. Biology

The gut microbiome has been associated with many heath conditions, and scientists are exploring the links between the gut microbiome and Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease associated with aging….

A team of scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that controls how genes are switched ‘on’ and ‘off’ during embryonic development. Published today in…

To overcome the inherent challenge of translation termination interference caused by stop codon reprogramming in mammalian cells, researchers from Peking University led by Chen Peng from College of Chemistry and Molecular…

A global effort to create a “microbial Noah’s Ark” to preserve the world’s diverse collection of healthy microbes before they disappear is now entering an active growth phase.

In a perspective article published in Nature…

It has been known for several years that abnormal chromosome numbers lead to protein imbalances in the affected cells. Researchers at RPTU have now investigated the detailed effects of such imbalances. Surprisingly, they found that…

Post-mortem brain samples

Post-mortem brains from AD patients and unaffected controls were obtained from NIH NeuroBioBanks- [1] Human Brain and Spinal Fluid Resource Center, 11301 Wilshire Blvd (127 A), Los Angeles, CA. [2] Brain Endowment Bank,…

Patient cohorts

For the initial training cohort, all patients with a primary cSCC diagnosed and treated by excision at the Department of Dermatology at the University Hospital Cologne (Cologne cohort) between January 2009 to May 2019 were…