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Smoking Increases SARS-CoV-2 Receptors in the Lung, Study Suggests

New research from CSHL scientists suggests that cigarette smoke spurs the lungs to make more ACE2, the protein that the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 grabs and uses to enter human cells.
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Genomic Progress in Dairy Science

How has genomic selection progressed to becoming a critical tool for the dairy industry around the world?
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Mature Oligodendrocytes Can Generate New Myelin Sheaths, Finds Paradigm-busting Study

Scientists have identified a new way that cells in the central nervous system regenerate and repair following damage.
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Clinical Trial Shows Topical Stem Cell Treatment Leads to Hair Regrowth in Common Type of Baldness

The results of a new clinical trial published in the journal STEM CELLS Translational Medicine demonstrate how a topical solution made up of stem cells leads to the regrowth of hair for people with a common type of baldness.
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Novel Mechanism in Estrogen Receptor-positive Breast Cancer Cells Uncovered

A research team has discovered that a key factor in the estrogen signaling pathway called "CPEB2" is essential for protein synthesis after hormonal stimulation, the latter a process that regulates both the proper development of the mammary gland and the formation of luminal breast tumours.
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Genetic Patterns in Brain Cancer Tumors Can Predict Life Expectancy

An international team of scientists has experimentally validated a predictor for glioblastoma life expectancy that is not only more accurate but also more clinically relevant: a pattern of co-occurring changes in DNA abundance levels, or copy numbers, at hundreds of thousands of sites across the whole tumor genome.
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How Do Plants Forget?

An international group of researchers found the answer to the question: how do plants forget?
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"Cell Pores" Study Points Way to Stopping Brain Injury-Related Swelling

Scientists have developed a new treatment that could help to dramatically reduce swelling after brain and spinal cord injuries.
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A Method for Assessing the Role of Long Non-protein Coding RNAs

The discovery of a huge number of long non-protein coding RNAs, aka lncRNAs, in the mammalian genome was a major surprise of the recent large-scale genomics projects. Now, a team of researchers has developed a reliable method for assessing the role of such RNAs.
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How Iron Binding Drives the Immune System To Deal With Respiratory Infections

A molecule which binds to iron is key in driving the immune system to deal with TB, according to a new study.
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