Tag Archives: Genes

[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 …

[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. …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 15, 2020 For decades, scientists and doctors have been looking for a cure for cancer. Now, researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have taken a significant step forward with a new concept that …

[ad_1] A research team in India recently described how the field of proteomics could be pivotal in helping tackle the current 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Since the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 Marchth, 2020, scientists have struggled to develop therapies for …

[ad_1] Children with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) sometimes develop multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), which is associated with high morbidity. The underlying mechanism associated with T cells is described by the researchers in a new study published on the prepress server bioRxiv* in November 2020, in response to superantigen …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 11, 2020 A large international consortium led by scientists from Uppsala University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard sequenced the genome of 130 mammals and analyzed the data along with 110 existing genomes to allow scientists to identify which locations are important …

[ad_1] The latest animation technology has revealed the molecular details of how our bodies are protected from cancer by a key “tumor suppressor” protein called p53. The new WEHI-TV animation displays the findings of more than 40 years of research to explain how the tumor suppressor protein p53 normally prevents …

[ad_1] Researchers have discovered a mysterious gene in the genetic code of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, a segment virtually hidden from view in the virus genome and largely overlooked until now. The newly identified gene – called ORF3d – is an example of what is called an overlapping gene: a kind …

[ad_1] Caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is primarily a lung disease, and a large percentage of patients with severe cases also have a bacterial infection or secondary fungal. In fact, about 25% of patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and …

[ad_1] The artist’s interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill knowledge gaps about the microbes that play key roles in Earth’s microbiomes. (Credit: Zosia Rostomian / Berkeley Lab) Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods over the past decade, researchers have discovered genomes …