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Efforts to curtail the flow of cocaine into the United States from South America have made drug trafficking operations more widespread and harder to eradicate, according to new research published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Discovering how atoms — such as a single layer of carbon atoms found in graphene, one of the world’s strongest materials — work to create a solid material is currently a major research topic in the field of materials science, or the design and discovery of new materials. Now researchers are applying deep learning techniques to help find the answer.

A system developed by David Dalmazzo and Rafael Ramírez, members of the Music Technology Group, allows violin students to benefit from real-time accurate information about their movements when playing the instrument. The results of this work were published in March in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.

Although most cases of Parkinson's are sporadic, the inheritable variants of the disease are mainly associated with mutations of the gene that encodes the LRRK2 enzyme. Inhibitors of LRRK2 do exist, however they have many undesirable side effects. Vitamin B12, according to a new study, inhibits the kinase activity of LRRK2 and thus presents as a novel class of modulator for the enzyme.

One way to treat the most common type of kidney cancer is to use anti-angiogenic drugs to cut off the blood supply to the tumors, but patients respond differently to the drugs, and choosing the wrong one can make the cancer grow faster.

Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently uncovered the mechanisms of how RNA polymerase II performs intrinsic cleavage reaction to proofread RNA transcriptions, shedding light on how mis-regulation of accurate transcription can lead to diseases including cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

Scientists have created a three-dimensional cage from both protein and DNA building blocks through the use of covalent protein-DNA conjugates.

A new University of South Florida preclinical study finds that the regenerative cell therapy boosts motor neuron survival by repairing the blood-spinal cord barrier.

A new mouse model for the rare neurological disorder Joubert Syndrome has been developed by scientists who hope it will accelerate research to understand how the disease develops as well as help develop and evaluate therapeutic approaches.

The difficulty in spotting minute amounts of disease circulating in the bloodstream has proven a stumbling block in the detection and treatment of cancers that advance stealthily with few symptoms. With a novel electrochemical biosensing device that identifies the tiniest signals these biomarkers emit, NJIT researchers are hoping to bridge this gap.