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How Do Our Genes Make Us More Prone to Allergies?

Slight alterations in ETS1 protein level can lead to allergic inflammation.
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Potential Treatment for Rare Cancer-Like Lung Disease Discovered

A treatment for a rare cancer-like lung disease found in women of childbearing age may have been discovered.
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Lung and Heart Stem Cells Provide Insights for SARS-CoV-2 Treatment

Researchers have used heart and lung stem cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 to better understand how the disease impacts different organs.
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New Insights Into Cellular Senescence Revealed

Researchers identified multiple targets of p53/p16-RB-E2F-DREAM that are essential for proliferation, mitotic progression, resolving DNA damage, maintaining chromatin integrity and DNA synthesis that were repressed in senescent cells.
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Light-Controlled Transport of Biomolecules Across the Cell Membrane Reported

Crossing the membrane is a major challenge on the journey through the cell. A research team has reported new light-responsive transporters that can transport peptides across the cell membrane.
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DNA Reprogrammed To Form Cell “Skeleton”

Researchers have artificially recreated the tubes and thread-like structures that give cells their shape and help determine their function.
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Juice Concentrate From Japanese Plum Benefits Cardiovascular Health

Processed, infused juice concentrate shown to have anti-hypertensive effects in mice.
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Can We Produce Useful and Unnatural Compounds by Retooling Cells' Protein Factories?

Three new papers show how to reprogram cells to supply the ribosome with building blocks other than the alpha-amino acids that make up all proteins today, how to predict which building blocks make the best substrates and how to tweak the ribosome to incorporate these novel building blocks into polymers.
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The Oldest Group of Lizards Just Gained a New Member

A new species of gliding gecko has been uncovered in northern India.
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Structural Biologists Reveal Mysteries of Actin Filament Polarity

Actin filaments have long been known to have polarity associated with their physical characteristics, but the mechanism behind how the filament is polarized has remained a mystery – until now.
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