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‘Junk DNA’ is a double-edged sword, and the good side has anti-cancer potential

October 22, 2021 A, DNA, double-edged, is, junk, S

Rochester biologists show how selfish genetic elements that can cause tumors may also trigger the death of cancer cells. Selfish

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Damaging DNA builds up in the eyes to drive blinding age-related macular degeneration

October 1, 2021 age, DNA, Macular Degeneration

Damaging DNA builds up in the eyes of patients with geographic atrophy, an untreatable, poorly understood form of age-related macular

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New bioengineered reporter system allows to follow protein isoform expression over time in live cells

June 6, 2021 Biomedicine, cell, DNA, genes

Our proteome is much bigger than our genome because one gene produces several variants of proteins called protein isoforms, whose

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Study: Reduced activity of specific enzyme leads to much higher cancer rates

March 17, 2021 Bases, cancer, Carcinogen, cell, Cell Death, DNA, DNA Damage, enzyme, liver, research

In the past few years, several medications have been found to be contaminated with NDMA, a probable carcinogen. This chemical,

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Researchers identify a genetic defect that increases the risk of debilitating eye disease

March 17, 2021 Amino Acid, blindness, Blood, Blood Vessels, DNA, eye, Eye Disease, gene, Genetic, genome, Medical Research, mutation, research, Vision Loss

A genetic defect could hold the key to preventing or delaying the onset of a debilitating eye disease that can

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VEXAS syndrome in men is more common than previously thought

March 11, 2021 Blood, bone, Bone Marrow, chromosome, DNA, Genetic, medicine, Rare Disease, research, Skin, syndrome:, X chromosome

A rare disease first identified in 2020 is much more common than first thought, say researchers at the University of

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Researchers study the digestion process of drug-loaded DNA nanostructures in real time

March 2, 2021 Blood, cancer, Digestion, DNA, Drug Delivery, Endonuclease, Nanostructures, Nanotechnology, research

DNA nanotechnology – the research field using DNA molecules as building material – has developed rapidly during recent years and

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Neanderthal gene can confer protection against severe COVID-19, finds study

February 22, 2021 Allele, cell, chromosome, Chromosome 12, Chromosome 3, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Disease COVID-19, DNA, frequency, gene, genes, Genetic, genome, Genomics, Infectious Diseases, Intensive Care, locus, Neanderthal, Phylogeny, receptor, respiratory, RNA, SARS, SARS-CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, syndrome:

Some of the genes in the human genome appear to confer a protective effect against severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),

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New method uses DNA biomarkers to flag prenatal environmental exposures in children

February 18, 2021 Air Pollution, biomarker, Blood, children, chronic, DNA, Epigenetics, Pollution, pregnancy, prenatal, Public Health

Scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health developed a method using a DNA biomarker to easily screen pregnant

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Modified CRISPR/Cas9 complex targets specific histones

February 10, 2021 Bioengineering, cancer, Cas9, cell, chromosome, Crispr, DNA, enzyme, Epigenetics, gene, Gene Expression, genes, genome, Genome Editing, Histones, melanoma, molecule, Phosphorylation, protein, research, students

Finding a needle in a haystack is hard enough. But try finding a specific molecule on the needle. Rice University

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