Category: 5. Biology

A natural citrus oil from oranges, lemons, and limes is proving highly effective in relieving dry mouth, and when combined with a new lipid formulation, new research suggests it may be effective without significant side…

Almost half of people with depression meet criteria for being ‘treatment-resistant’, found a new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

Definitions for treatment-resistant depression vary….

CRISPR-guided epigenetic editing is site specific and stable

Initially, we aimed to modify DNAm in a genomic region within phosphodiesterase 4C (PDE4C), which was identified as one of the first sites to gain age-associated DNAm across different…

Computational tools that predict which amino acid sequences are produced by cleavage enzymes can accelerate the discovery of bioactive peptides with therapeutic potential. A study recently published in Nature presents a peptide prediction…

At a virtual conference in November 2020, the winner of a biennial protein-structure-prediction challenge was announced: AlphaFold. Created by Google DeepMind, this…

Ethical statement

We followed the Reporting in Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE) guidelines developed by the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs). We also followed “The Act on Welfare and Management…