As biocatalysts, enzymes can make many chemical processes "greener" and open up promising opportunities for various industries from pharmaceuticals to environmental technology. New analytical methods, the enormous increase ...
Biochemistry
Nov 24, 2023
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A new CRISPR-based gene-editing tool has been developed which could lead to better treatments for patients with genetic disorders. The tool is an enzyme, AsCas12f, which has been modified to offer the same effectiveness but ...
Biotechnology
Sep 29, 2023
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Gene editing is one of the latest breakthroughs in biology. The widely known CRISPR-Cas gene editing system provided prokaryotes (organisms that lack cell nuclei) an immunity against foreign DNA. Since the discovery of the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 7, 2023
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Researchers from Rice University and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, Have taken a close look at one of the ways cells repair broken strands of DNA and discovered details that could help make a ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 5, 2023
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In a rare disease called mucolipidosis type II, people's hearts and abdomens swell, and their bones grow malformed.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 6, 2022
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It sounds like a plot for a Cold War thriller—training a gene to infiltrate a cell and reside there, unnoticed, until an external self-destruct signal induces it to destroy its new home.
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 8, 2022
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Many diseases are caused by defects in signaling pathways of body cells. In the future, bioactive nanocapsules could become a valuable tool for medicine to control these pathways. Researchers from the University of Basel ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 14, 2020
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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new approach to treating cancer using enzyme therapy.
Biotechnology
Aug 28, 2018
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used a CRISPR/Cas9 genetic engineering technique to turn off a gene that regulates cholesterol levels in adult mice, leading to reduced blood cholesterol levels and gene repression ...
Biotechnology
Apr 26, 2018
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Enzymes behave differently in a test tube compared with the molecular scrum of a living cell. Chemists from the University of Basel have now been able to simulate these confined natural conditions in artificial vesicles for ...
Biochemistry
Mar 1, 2017
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