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Secrets of Herbal Antidepressant Synthesis Are Uncovered
NewsA new collaboration by scientists from German and Canadian research institutes has shed light on the genes involved in the biosynthesis of hypericin.
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Oxygen-starved Cancer Cells Have Survival Advantage That Promotes Spread
News Nov 07, 2019Using cells from human breast cancers and mouse breast cancer models, researchers believe they have significant new evidence that cancer cells exposed to low-oxygen have an advantage when it comes to invading and surviving in the bloodstream.
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A Highly Precise Cas9 Enzyme, SaCas9-HF, Is Added to the CRISPR Toolbox
News Nov 07, 2019A team of scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and the Karolinska Institute has created a novel protein that can increase the target accuracy in genome editing.
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Structure of a Novel Enzyme Linked to Cell Growth and Cancer Is Cracked
News Nov 07, 2019RNA, or ribonucleic acid, is present in the cells of all living beings and required to synthesize proteins. A research team at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered the structure of a novel RNA-modifying enzyme, ZCCHC4, and identified the mechanism that controls how this enzyme recognizes its substrate.
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Preemies Who Develop Chronic Lung Disease Had More Stem Cells at Birth
News Nov 07, 2019In the first large-scale clinical study to characterize stem cells from the umbilical cord blood and tissues of premature infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia – a severe, chronic lung disease – researchers found that these babies had more stem cells at birth.
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“Super-grafts” That Could Treat Diabetes
News Nov 07, 2019By successfully strengthening pancreatic islets before transplantation, researchers at UNIGE and HUG are hoping for a significant improvement in the success of cell transplants in patients with severe diabetes.
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Scrambled Cytoplasm From Frog Eggs Organizes Into Cell-like Structures
News Nov 07, 2019A new study suggests that the cytoplasm of ruptured frog eggs can spontaneously reorganize itself into cell-like compartments.
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New Technique Lays Foundation for Regenerative Cardiac Therapies
News Nov 07, 2019Researchers have developed a novel technique that can determine which heart cells can replicate and which cannot; this could be a step towards regenerative cardiac therapies.
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A Game-changing Test for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Prion Disease Is on the Horizon
News Nov 07, 2019A team of scientists who have been working on prion detection for nearly 20 years have demonstrated that their unique, synthetic-molecule-based approach can isolate prion proteins in body fluids sampled from infected animals.
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Scientist Wants To Add More Building Blocks to the Body’s Protein-making Kit
News Nov 06, 2019Andrew Buller, professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, wants to add more building blocks to the body’s protein-making kit. In nature, there exist 20 of these building blocks, called amino acids, which make up the proteins that perform the work required to sustain life. Buller says scientists can create more, allowing them to expand the ways in which cells build proteins.
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Researchers Suggest Identical Twin Kidney Transplants Warrant Gene Sequencing
News Nov 06, 2019Using U.S. transplant registry data, clinical researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found that kidney transplants between identical twins have high success rates, but also high rates of immunosuppressant use.
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