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Warm Waters and Birth Control Pills Influence Gene Expression in Fish
Warmer water temperatures, combined with low-level exposure to chemicals already known to be harmful to aquatic life, influence the expression of genes in the offspring of an abundant North American fish species - and threaten organisms whose sex determination is sensitive to water temperature.
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Lung Tumors Exploit Bacteria to Their Advantage
MIT cancer biologists have discovered a new mechanism that lung tumors exploit to promote their own survival: These tumors alter bacterial populations within the lung, provoking the immune system to create an inflammatory environment that in turn helps the tumor cells to thrive.
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Repurposing Anti-rejection Drug to Treat Liver Cancer
Research in animal models and patient tissues has identified a new molecular pathway in the liver that suggests a commonly used anti-rejection medication could be repurposed to treat certain liver cancers.
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How Does the Immune System Protects Us Against Bowel Cancer?
Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have discovered a protective mechanism which is used by the body to protect intestinal stem cells from turning cancerous. The body's innate immune system was found to play a pivotal role in this regard.
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To Sleep Is to Heal: How the Immune System Regulates Sleep When Sickness Strikes
In a study of over 12,000 lines of fruit flies, researchers have found a single gene, called NEMURI, that increases the need for sleep.
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Turning Off the Huntingtin Gene With the Flick of a Switch
With their first ever RNA-based inducible system for switching on genes in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), researchers have closed a significant gap in the research on and usage of genetic switches.
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Tool Measures Success of HIV Cure Strategies
A new assay can accurately and easily count the cells that comprise the HIV reservoir, the stubborn obstacle to an HIV cure.
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Transcription Factors: The Genome Explorers
A research team has found a way to predict the efficiency with which different transcription factors scan the genome in living cells.
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Breaking New Ground in the Battle Against Complex Human Pediatric Brain Cancers
Scientists are making important progress in the battle against a class of devilishly complex human pediatric brain cancers thanks to a new study from a team of Florida State University students and faculty.
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Creating Order from Disorder
Scientists have identified ‘structural capacitance elements’ (localized regions of disorder) in mutated proteins that are associated with many different types of human diseases, in particular a range of cancers.
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