Researchers have identified a promising strategy for development of broad-spectrum antiviral therapies that centers around promoting a strong immune response capable of stopping a number of viruses in their infectious tracks.
Biochemistry
Oct 10, 2022
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Developing tools for precise control of biological processes has been one of the main pillars of the now mature field of synthetic biology. These scientific tools borrow principles from a multitude of research fields which, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 5, 2022
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Sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until you find it; and this is especially true when it comes to the huge datasets that can be generated using modern sequencing techniques. Now, researchers from Japan report ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 3, 2022
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The control of RNA metabolism is crucial to the regulation of animal longevity, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging in Cologne have now discovered. They found that worms live longer when certain ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 20, 2022
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The starting point of the research was the search for host factors, that are necessary for RNA viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 to replicate. For this purpose, genome-wide CRISPR/Cas knock-out screens in human cell cultures were ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 9, 2022
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For four decades, Specificity Protein 1 (Sp1) has been cast solely as a transcription factor, a type of protein that binds DNA and turns genes on. But a Donnelly Center study has now revealed that Sp1 plays another unexpected ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 6, 2022
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Evolution is often portrayed as a "tinkering" process, one that makes use of slight modifications to pre-existing capabilities. So how do organisms evolve brand new structures?
Evolution
Sep 1, 2022
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The impact of environmental conditions on the dynamic structures of RNAs in living cells has been revealed by innovative technology developed by researchers at the John Innes Centre.
Biotechnology
Aug 17, 2022
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Bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloids (bis-BIAs) and chlorophyll (Chl) are predominantly accumulated in lotus plumule, which is a green tissue in the middle of seeds. Although bis-BIAs and Chl endow lotus plumule with important ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 17, 2022
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Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered novel mechanisms underlying a specific transcription factor essential for elongation control, the process of synthesizing RNA from DNA, according to findings published in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 11, 2022
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