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A team of researchers has identified in rodents and humans common epigenetic mechanisms related to food addiction.

When cells reproduce, the internal mechanisms that copy DNA get it right nearly every time. Rice University bioscientists have uncovered a tiny detail that helps understand how the process could go wrong.

OH radicals are notoriously difficult to measure accurately, but new research has provided a direct detection method for measuring OH radicals in the atmosphere.

Researchers have discovered that when a specific gene for a protein called BRG1 cancer cells is switched off, cancer cells were able to gain extra chromosomes without any of the negative results normally seen in aneuploid cells.

Researchers know that the KaiC protein is key for regulating the circadian clock in cyanobacteria, but until now the precise mechanisms of its activation and inactivation have remained unknown.

Epigenetic drugs that have shown promise as a cancer therapy could also be repurposed and used to treat scleroderma, an autoimmune condition characterized by cell scarring.

Modeling T cell behavior can help to predict patient outcomes in response to immunotherapy, which enables different rational approaches to designing therapeutics.

Researchers have identified that the phospholipid PIP2 is key for maintaining epithelial cell adhesion and preventing the epithelial–mesenchymal transition in metastasis.

In a new study published in Blood, scientists from the University of South Australia and SA Pathology’s Centre for Cancer Biology report how they have discovered a way to suppress a specific protein that promotes drug resistance in acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

A sensor has been designed that can be incorporated into a diaper to measure multiple components of urine and provide bedside analyses for elderly or infant patients.