Trypanosomatids are single-cell parasites that cause major diseases, such as sleeping sickness and Rose of Jericho, which affect millions of people. Trypanosoma parasites are transmitted to mammals by the blood-sucking tsetse ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 17, 2021
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On Feb 5th, Seoul National University, College of Engineering (Dean Kookheon Char) announced that Professor Sang Woo Seo's research team (Dr. Jina Yang and Mr. Yong Hee Han) at the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering ...
Biochemistry
Feb 8, 2021
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Just like people, cells get stressed too. A sudden drop in oxygen, overheating, or toxins can trigger a cascade of molecular changes that lead cells to stop growing, produce stress-protective factors, and form stress granules—proteins ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 14, 2020
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Digital technology has made intercultural contacts a daily activity for many people in the world. As a result, the globalization of cultural flows and the various ways that people appropriate these cultural flows have become ...
Education
Nov 25, 2020
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A specialized database has been published online in Nucleic Acids Research. Called TransCirc, the database provides comprehensive evidence supporting the translation potential of circular RNAs (circRNAs). This database was ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 30, 2020
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Infectious viruses come in many shapes and sizes and use slightly different attack mechanisms to make humans and animals sick. But all viruses share something in common: They can only do damage by replicating inside the cells ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 22, 2020
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Since mRNAs play a key role in protein synthesis in vivo, the use of mRNAs as medicines and for in vitro protein synthesis has been desired. In particular, mRNA therapeutics hold the potential for application to vaccine therapy ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 16, 2020
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Skoltech scientists and their colleagues have studied more than 30 thousand variants of genetic sequences encoding two fluorescent proteins in order to determine which characteristics of mRNA and of the first dozen or so ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 28, 2020
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Humans are living longer than ever before. But alongside these increases in life expectancy are an increase in the occurrence of age-related diseases such as cancer and dementia.
Molecular & Computational biology
May 20, 2020
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The instructions of life encoded in our genes are decoded through the translation into mRNA, which then instructs the synthesis of proteins. Because mRNA translation is an essential process, it is carefully coordinated through ...
Biotechnology
Feb 28, 2020
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