[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 19, 2020 Scientists from Utah have discovered new functions of a key cellular machine that regulates the packaging of genes and is mutated in 20% of human cancers. The study was published today in print in the journal Molecular cell. Genes are segments of …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 18, 2020 For a slow-growing microbe that multiplies infrequently, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB) has long puzzled researchers as to how it develops resistance to antibiotics so quickly, within weeks or months. Now, TB researchers at San Diego State University have …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 18, 2020 In a controlled study of smokers, non-smokers, and e-cigarette users, researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine found that e-cigarette users exhibited significantly altered immune responses to a influenza virus infection pattern, suggesting a increased susceptibility to the disease. …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.October 28, 2020 In the world of rare genetic diseases, exome and genome sequencing are two powerful tools used to make a diagnosis. A recent addition to the toolkit, RNA sequencing, has been shown to help researchers narrow down the candidate disease variants first identified …
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