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Genetic Study Sheds New Light on the Into- and Out-of-Taiwan Dispersals

The Austronesian language family is one of the largest in the world, comprising over 1,200 languages spoken from Madagascar to Hawaii. Dang Liu, Albert Min-Shan Ko and Mark Stoneking collected genome-wide data from 55 individuals from seven Taiwanese Austronesian groups and two Han-Taiwanese groups to study the genetic structure of Taiwan, the point of origin for all Austronesian-speaking peoples.

17 May 2023

Glycosylation Enzyme Regulates the Formation of Neurons and Astrocytes From Neural Stem Cells

The MGAT5 glycosylation enzyme plays a crucial role in brain development, according to a study by University of California, Irvine researchers, a discovery that may contribute to new therapeutic purposes for neural stem cells.

17 May 2023

Researchers Discover How Deadly Hospital Pathogen can Survive Harsh Environments

The deadly hospital pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii can live for a year on a hospital wall without food and water. Then, when it infects a vulnerable patient, it resists antibiotics as well as the body's built-in infection-fighting response.

17 May 2023

Liver Cancers With Key Epigenetic Alteration Tend to Have a Poor Clinical Prognosis

Researchers at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, led by Dr. Manel Esteller, have discovered a key epigenetic alteration that anticipates the clinical course of liver cancer.

17 May 2023

Study Provides a New Picture of How Bacterial Cells Repair Faulty DNA

A new study adds to an emerging, radically new picture of how bacterial cells continually repair faulty sections of their DNA.

17 May 2023

Long-Ignored Antibiotic may Provide Much-Needed Protection Against Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria

An old antibiotic may provide much-needed protection against multi-drug resistant bacterial infections, according to a new study publishing May 16th in the open access journal PLOS Biology by James Kirby of Harvard Medical School, US, and colleagues.

17 May 2023

Single-Cell Omics Reveals Cell Types Involved in the Biosynthesis of Plant Natural Products

In a new study published in Nature Chemical Biology, an international team of researchers from the University of Georgia, USA, and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, presents a promising strategy for elucidating metabolic pathways for plant compounds of medicinal importance.

16 May 2023

Study Shows How Sea Anemones Recycle Nitrogen Waste to Thrive in Nutrient-Poor Environments

Tropical oceans are typically nutrient-poor, yet they host vast biologically diverse reef ecosystems built by symbiotic cnidarians (including corals and anemones).

16 May 2023

Study Finds Methylated CD Derivatives as Effective Stabilizers for Supersaturated Drugs

In the medicine market, most newly introduced drugs and drug candidates show poor water solubility, which prevents their absorption in the body. This, in turn, limits their therapeutic efficiency.

16 May 2023

Brain-Wide Mapping Reveals How Serotonin Affects Animal Behavior

Because serotonin is one of the primary chemicals the brain uses to influence mood and behavior, it is also the most common target of psychiatric drugs.

16 May 2023

Study Implicates RNA Molecules as New Players in Esophageal Cancer

Irregularities in the body's genetic coding to make proteins are linked to cancerous tumors. But most genetic material contains elements whose function isn't clear.

16 May 2023

Proteomics Approach Identifies p62-Mediated Selective Autophagy of the Supramolecular Vault Complex

Our body functioning is delicately balanced between the synthesis and breakdown of various cellular components.

16 May 2023

Heat-Loving Marine Bacteria can Help Reduce Asbestos' Toxicity

Asbestos materials were once widely used in homes, buildings, automobile brakes and many other built materials due to their strength and resistance to heat and fire, as well as to their low electrical conductivity.

16 May 2023

First Humanized Mouse Model for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Developed

Mice with a defected human gene responsible for a rare genetic disease, called congenital adrenal hyperplasia, have been developed for the first time.

16 May 2023

Targeting Respiratory Viral Infections with a New Immunotherapy Treatment

A researcher at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine has created a novel, more effective therapy for acute respiratory viral infections, a significant global cause of illness each year.

16 May 2023

New Protein That is Responsible for Giving Strawberries the Red Color

The University of Córdoba’s research team has identified a novel transcription factor that controls the development of the anthocyanins that give strawberries their distinctive red color as the fruit ripens.

16 May 2023

Study Finds Place of Transcription Start Often Determines the Place of Transcription End

Each gene in the human DNA has a start and an endpoint. It is critical to correctly define the gene's extremities to make functional proteins. Much study has been conducted to identify what determines when, where, and at which place on the DNA a gene “starts.”

16 May 2023

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Genetic Study Sheds New Light on the Into- and Out-of-Taiwan Dispersals

Glycosylation Enzyme Regulates the Formation of Neurons and Astrocytes From Neural Stem Cells

Researchers Discover How Deadly Hospital Pathogen can Survive Harsh Environments

Liver Cancers With Key Epigenetic Alteration Tend to Have a Poor Clinical Prognosis

Study Provides a New Picture of How Bacterial Cells Repair Faulty DNA

Long-Ignored Antibiotic may Provide Much-Needed Protection Against Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria

Single-Cell Omics Reveals Cell Types Involved in the Biosynthesis of Plant Natural Products

Study Shows How Sea Anemones Recycle Nitrogen Waste to Thrive in Nutrient-Poor Environments

Study Finds Methylated CD Derivatives as Effective Stabilizers for Supersaturated Drugs

Brain-Wide Mapping Reveals How Serotonin Affects Animal Behavior

Study Implicates RNA Molecules as New Players in Esophageal Cancer

Proteomics Approach Identifies p62-Mediated Selective Autophagy of the Supramolecular Vault Complex

Heat-Loving Marine Bacteria can Help Reduce Asbestos' Toxicity

First Humanized Mouse Model for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Developed

Targeting Respiratory Viral Infections with a New Immunotherapy Treatment

New Protein That is Responsible for Giving Strawberries the Red Color

Study Finds Place of Transcription Start Often Determines the Place of Transcription End

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation to Help in Clostridioides difficile Infection

Learning More About Stem Cells Advances Personalized Regenerative Medicine

Understanding the Motility of H. pylori Using 3D Model

Driving Support for Pharmaceutical Testing Through Continuous Innovation

From Memory to Metaplasticity: Unraveling the Brain's Secrets

Revolutionizing Mass Spectrometry: A Deep Dive into Plasmion’s SICRIT® Technology

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