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A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland found that a genetic variant named PLCG2-P522R, which protects against Alzheimer's disease, enhances several key functions of immune cells.

A new drug offers hope for young boys with the progressive neuromuscular disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) by potentially offering an alternative to high-dose glucocorticoids that have significant side effects.

A team of Duke Health scientists have identified biomarkers that accurately identify numerous viral infections across the clinical stages of disease, advancing a potential new way to guide treatment, quarantine decisions, and other clinical and public health interventions in the setting of endemic and pandemic infectious diseases.

New findings by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators help explain why some people with COVID-19 develop severe disease. The findings also may provide the first molecular explanation for why more men than women die from COVID-19.

Researchers at UC San Francisco are tackling antibiotic resistance using a different approach: redesigning existing antibiotic molecules to evade a bacterium’s resistance mechanisms.

Maturation of the ribosome is a complex operation. Work by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) researchers now shows that the 90S precursor of the small 40S subunit undergoes a 'molting' process, during which it progressively discards its outermost components.

A collaboration is on a mission to understand, in visual detail and with mathematical precision, all aspects of viral attack strategies, including how viruses invade host cell protein-making machinery.

New light is being shed on a little-known role of Y chromosome genes, specific to males, that could explain why men suffer differently than women from various diseases, including COVID-19.

To investigate clinical variability in SARS-CoV-2, a team of researchers surveyed publicly available databases of genomic variants and studied variants across multiple regional and ethnic groups in seven genes known to play roles in viral entry into host cells and recognition of viral RNA in host cells.

New research from Aarhus University shows that a circular RNA molecule, which has been designated as carcinogenic, is actually not found in the cancer cells. Researchers suggest that the molecule contributes to the development of cancer through what is known as the microenvironment.