The protein that gives identical cells individuality
New insight into a protein's role in regulating tight DNA packing could have implications for combating tumor cell resistance to anti-cancer treatments.
New insight into a protein's role in regulating tight DNA packing could have implications for combating tumor cell resistance to anti-cancer treatments.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 16, 2019
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The idea of genetically modifying a patient's own immune cells and deploying them against infections and tumors has been around since the 1980s. But to this day modified T cells are still not as effective as natural T cells ...
Biotechnology
Jul 11, 2019
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Many of an organism's traits are influenced by cues from the organism's environment. These features are known as phenotypically plastic traits and are important in allowing an organism to cope with unpredictable environments.
Ecology
Jun 14, 2019
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In the last six years, a tool called CRISPR-Cas9 has transformed genetic research, allowing scientists to snip and edit DNA strands at precise locations like a pair of tiny scissors.
Biotechnology
Apr 8, 2019
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Holm oaks are some of the most emblematic trees in Mediterranean forests and the most abundant ones on the Iberian Peninsula. Holm oaks have provided countless applications throughout their hundreds of thousands of years ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2019
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In research that casts cells as curators of their own history, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have discovered that adult tissues retain a memory, inscribed on their DNA, of the embryonic cells from which they arose. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 21, 2019
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University of Minnesota Crookston researchers, aided by students, are shedding light on freshwater sponges in Minnesota, which may be indicators of water quality.
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2019
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Scientists have shed light on how healthy cells develop by identifying the role of key molecules involved.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 7, 2019
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From fathers to children, the delivery of hereditary information requires the careful packing of DNA in sperm. But just how nature packages this DNA to prepare offspring isn't clear. Using new technology to reveal the 3-D ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 18, 2019
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A group of researchers from the Andalusian Centre for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER) has revealed the importance of eliminating any excess of defective products that might have accumulated in the mitochondria, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 3, 2019
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