Tag Archives: genetic

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 23, 2020 Doctors and scientists are constantly looking for new disease genes that can help them understand why patients have undiagnosed medical problems. Often the first clues come from genetic tests that reveal a change or mutation in a gene that they see in …

[ad_1] Photo: The Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research elements from: Jessica Walker Published on 11/22/2020 – 11:34 pm Is Oxygen the Key to Eternal Life? An Israeli researcher thinks so. In a study it has now confirmed that the aging process can not only be stopped, but reversed! …

[ad_1] Leonardo da Vinci is famous for his elaborate and nuanced works of art and advanced technological ideas. But new research has revealed another level of complexity to his designs: a hidden world of tiny life forms on his artwork. The findings, the researchers said, could help build a “catalog” …

[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 …

[ad_1] Using cats as an animal model to study the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the researchers determined that the virus has a narrow transmission bottleneck. The current 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the agent SARS-CoV-2, is widely believed to be zoonotic in origin (meaning …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 19, 2020 Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers have shown that the CRISPR / Cas9 system is highly effective in treating metastatic cancers, a significant step on the road to finding a cure for cancer. Researchers have developed a new lipid nanoparticle-based delivery system that …

[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] Researchers at Montana State University have validated and compared two methods of inactivating the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that would allow studying the virus at a lower biosafety level (BSL) than is currently required. The risk posed to researchers by this highly infectious agent – severe …

[ad_1] Researchers in Korea and the United States have identified new genetic variants that demonstrate active mutational progression of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Two of the mutations occurred in the receptor binding domain of the viral spike protein, the …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 11, 2020 Michigan State University researchers have identified a potential genetic target for the treatment of a particularly painful and invasive form of endometriosis. Their study published in Cell reports, a scientific journal, could lead to better treatments for women suffering from severe forms …