A research team from the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has developed a new way to break through the current limited throughput in optimizing precise genome editors at scale, and engineer hundreds ...
Biotechnology
Jun 29, 2023
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Scientists studying cells have long held the view that euchromatin, the part of chromatin that is made up of genes and is genetically active, is open and can be transcribed. A research team, looking at new evidence from genomics ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 27, 2023
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During cell division, chromosomes, i.e., molecules containing our genetic material, must be properly replicated and segregated so that each daughter cell receives a complete and accurate set. Now, in an article published ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 8, 2023
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AI, machine learning, and ChatGPT may be relatively new buzzwords in the public domain, but developing a computer that functions like the human brain and nervous system—both hardware and software combined—has been a decades-long ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 5, 2023
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Collagen is the protein that holds our body together. It is produced inside cells, from where it must be transported to its site of action in connective tissue. The protein domain that is responsible for the recognition of ...
Biochemistry
May 22, 2023
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions report in the journal Nature Communications how a mutation in the enzyme SKD3 can cause a form of a genetic disease known as 3-methylglutaconic aciduria ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 11, 2023
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CTCF is a critical protein known to play various roles in key biological processes such as transcription. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have used a next-generation protein degradation technology to study ...
Biotechnology
Jan 25, 2023
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Some of the toughest challenges in treating disease are presented by "undruggable" proteins whose structures and roles in disease are known but are seemingly unable to be targeted by drugs that will bind to them. Researchers ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 21, 2022
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Researchers led by Dr. Lu Kaixing from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have provided new insights into the broad-line region (BLR) of the active galactic nuclei (AGN), and achieved precise measurements ...
Astronomy
Nov 14, 2022
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Researchers from Quantum-Si have published an article in Science that showcases how single-molecule protein sequencing via semiconductor chip and Time Domain Sequencing technologies will transform life science and biomedical ...
Biotechnology
Oct 13, 2022
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