Mutations in two gene pairs point to a promising drug target in 5% of adult cancers microbiologystudy
Credit: Natalie Velez, Broad Communications Scientists from the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard […]
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How Sudan virus binds to human cells microbiologystudy
The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms
New insights into liver maturation and specialization could advance regenerative medicine microbiologystudy
Biochemistry professor Nash Kalsotra Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Researchers from the University of Illinois have identified a key
Octopuses have some of the oldest known sex chromosomes
The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have identified a
Comprehensive genetic analysis identifies protective factors against Alzheimer’s disease microbiologystudy
Credit: Adapted from Alzheimer’s & Dementia (2024). DOI: 10.1002/alz.14214 An international research team led by the Hong Kong University of
How healthy stem cells turn into oral cancer microbiologystudy
Representative immunofluorescence images showing normal oral epithelial cells (left) and early stages of oral cancer (right, showing blue cells invading
Disrupting the RBM42 protein could throw a wrench in the gears of cancer’s growth microbiologystudy
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How hungry fat cells could someday starve cancer to death microbiologystudy
Schematic of the co-culturing model of cancer cells and CRISPRa-treated adipocytes using Transwell plates and their subsequent phenotyping (created with
Hijacking of plasmin by dengue virus for infection microbiologystudy
Biological scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to