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Promising Gonorrhea Vaccine Candidates Identified

Researchers at Oregon State University have identified a pair of proteins that show promise as the basis for a gonorrhea vaccine.
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MicroRNA Helps Cancer Evade Immune System

Salk researchers discover how oxygen-deprived tumors survive body’s immune response.
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Developing a Gene Therapy for Deaf Patients

OSU researchers have taken an important step toward gene therapy for deaf patients by developing a way to better study a large protein essential for hearing and finding a truncated version of it.
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GM Mice Bear Many of the Hallmarks of Human Bipolar Behaviour

Study shows that the behaviour responds to lithium treatment, just as used in people with the disorder.
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Ancient Genes Take on New Functions as Master Regulators

Researchers find that about 60 lncRNA genes in mammals – or 2% to 3% of lncRNAs shared by humans and other mammalian species – appear to be derived from ancestral, protein-coding genes.
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CRISPR Reveals the Sugary Secrets of the Cancer-related Notch Protein

New research shows that the fucose and glucose modifications serve as quality-control markers that allow Notch to be transported to its final destination in the cell membrane.
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Metabolic Classification of Human Hepatoblastoma Uncovered

EPFL scientists have now found metabolic differences between hepatoblastoma subtypes, and identified several biomarkers that can help obtain more accurate subtyping of the disease.
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Limiting Calorie Intake Slows Biological Aging in Animal Models

The new study links life-span to the epigenetic clock, and demonstrates that this clock is a useful biomarker to study aging.
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Hormonal Tug-of-war Helps Plant Roots Navigate Their Journey Through the Soil

A sophisticated mechanism that allows plant roots to quickly respond to changes in soil conditions has been identified by an international research team.
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Agilent Obtains U.S. FDA Approval for GenetiSure Dx Postnatal Assay

Agilent Technologies has obtained 510(k) clearance from the FDA for the GenetiSure Dx Postnatal Assay: its first comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) assay for diagnostic use.
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