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Team Is Working To Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine
Researchers are working on strategies for designing a universal flu vaccine that could work against any flu strain.
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Climate Goals Jeopardized by Rising Nitrous Oxide Emissions
Rising nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions - a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) that remains in the atmosphere for more than 100 years - are jeopardizing the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. Growing use of nitrogen fertilizers in food production are thought to be a major contributor.
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Senescent Cells Successfully Identified and Characterized In Vivo
Cell senescence is a state of permanent cell cycle arrest that was initially defined for cells grown in cell culture. A research team led by Professor Makoto Nakanishi of the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, generated a p16-Cre ERT2 -tdTomato mouse model (*1) to characterize in vivo p16 high cells (*2) at the single-cell level.
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Risk of Deadly Skin Cancer May Be Gauged by Accumulated DNA Damage
Risk for melanoma, the most deadly skin cancer, can be estimated long before detection of any suspicious moles, according to a UC San Francisco scientist who led a new study to detect DNA mutations in individual skin cells.
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New Platform Tests How Breast Cancer Cells Respond to Stretching
A team from Purdue University has created a new platform to test how breast cancer cells respond to the recurrent stretching that occurs in the lungs during breathing.
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Changing the Course of Early Cancer Detection To Save More Lives
Earlier detection of cancer offers arguably the single biggest opportunity to save lives from the disease. The authors of this roadmap hope that the prioritisation of early detection and diagnosis of cancer by scientists, companies, health services and government will create a thriving multidisciplinary ecosystem, focussed on proactively managing patients’ health and wellbeing before symptoms arise.
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Drug Compound Targets Weakness in Advanced Prostate Cancer
A new study reports that prostate cancer cells with a deletion of the SUCLA2 gene can be therapeutically targeted using the compound thymoquinone.
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Team Identifies Potential Drug Targets for Treatment of Epilepsy
Researchers have now identified the neurons that are most affected by epilepsy – some have never been linked to epilepsy before.
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Artificial Lung Helps Investigate How COVID-19 Causes Blood Clots
Scientists at EPFL are using technology to better understand how coronavirus causes blood clots in some patients. They have developed a simplified model of a lung that lets them observe, for the first time, how the virus attacks the cells lining blood vessels.
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Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier Win 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”.
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