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Released: 18-Dec-2018 9:00 AM EST
FSU Researchers Identify Ways Breast Cancer Avoids Immune System Detection
Florida State University

Researchers analyzed data from more than 1,000 breast cancer patients and found that breast cancer behaves differently than other cancers that are currently treated with immunotherapy. They identified seven clusters of breast cancer patients based on the immune evasion mechanisms that breast cancer uses to avoid detection.

Released: 17-Dec-2018 11:05 AM EST
One type of brain cell may invite Alzheimer’s
Ohio State University

Researchers found that excitatory neurons – those that are more likely to trigger an action (as opposed to inhibitory neurons, which are less likely to prompt neural activity) – are more vulnerable to accumulations of abnormal tau protein, which is increasingly being implicated in Alzheimer’s disease.

13-Dec-2018 8:05 AM EST
Neurons with Good Housekeeping Are Protected from Alzheimer’s
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

A new study finds that some brain cells protect themselves from Alzheimer’s with a cellular cleaning system that sweeps away toxic proteins associated with the disease.

Released: 17-Dec-2018 10:05 AM EST
New approach to bowel cancer analysis could lead to better prognosis for patients
Queen's University Belfast

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have discovered a new way to analyse bowel cancer tumours, which could lead to more personalised treatments and better prognosis for patients.

Released: 14-Dec-2018 12:10 PM EST
Geneticists Make New Discovery About How a Baby's Sex Is Determined
University of Melbourne

Medical researchers at Melbourne's Murdoch Children's Research Institute have made a new discovery about how a baby's sex is determined - it's not just about the X-Y chromosomes, but involves a 'regulator' that increases or decreases the activity of genes which decide if we become male or female.

   
Released: 14-Dec-2018 11:05 AM EST
Can Stem Cells Help a Diseased Heart Heal Itself? Rutgers Researcher Achieves Important Milestone
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

A team of Rutgers scientists have taken an important step toward the goal of making diseased hearts heal themselves – a new model that would reduce the need for bypass surgery, heart transplants or artificial pumping devices.

Released: 13-Dec-2018 3:05 PM EST
BPS Announces Jennifer Pesanelli as next Executive Officer, Thanks Ro Kampman for her Service
Biophysical Society

The Biophysical Society (BPS) announced that Jennifer Pesanelli has been selected as the next Executive Officer of the Society. Current Executive Officer Ro Kampman announced her retirement in June. Pesanelli joins BPS from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), where she has held a number of positions over the last 20 years.

Released: 13-Dec-2018 2:05 PM EST
Genetically modified pigs resist infection with the classical swine fever virus
PLOS

Researchers have developed genetically modified pigs that are protected from classical swine fever virus (CSFV), according to a study published December 13 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Hongsheng Ouyang of Jilin University, and colleagues. As noted by the authors, these pigs offer potential benefits over commercial vaccination and could reduce economic losses related to classical swine fever.

   
Released: 13-Dec-2018 12:05 PM EST
Kennesaw State University researcher awarded NIH grant to improve gene-editing technology delivery
Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw State University researcher Daniel Morris recently received a three-year $403,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve the delivery of protein therapeutics and the CRISPR/Cas gene-editing technology to living cells.

Released: 13-Dec-2018 11:55 AM EST
Tale of two trees: New web tool estimates gene trees with ease
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University - OIST

Gene trees, much like family trees, trace the lineage of a particular gene from its deep ancestral roots to its still-growing stems. By comparing gene trees to species trees, which map the evolutionary history of species, scientists can learn which species have which genes, what new functions those genes gained over time, and which functions they may have lost. Now, scientists at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have unveiled a new tool to perform these analyses quickly and without computational headaches.

Released: 13-Dec-2018 11:15 AM EST
The “Greying” of T Cells
Harvard Medical School

Research in mouse cells identifies defective metabolic pathway in aging immune T cells. The pathway is critical for switching T cells from dormancy into illness-fighting mode. In experiments, researchers restored lagging T-cell function by adding small-molecule compounds. Findings suggest possible mechanism behind weakened immunity common in the elderly.

Released: 13-Dec-2018 11:05 AM EST
Ebola-Fighting Protein Discovered in Human Cells
Northwestern University

Ebola virus (green) infects human cells much more easily when you remove the protective RBBP6 protein (compare left to right). Researchers have discovered a human protein that helps fight the Ebola virus and could one day lead to an effective therapy against the deadly disease, according to a new study from Northwestern University, Georgia State University, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Gladstone Institutes published today, Dec.

12-Dec-2018 10:45 AM EST
New Genetic Clues to Early-Onset Form of Dementia
Washington University in St. Louis

In an effort to better understand frontotemporal dementia, an international team of researchers, led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has found that a lone mutation in a single gene that causes an inherited form of the disorder makes it harder for neurons in the brain to communicate with one another, leading to neurodegeneration.

Released: 13-Dec-2018 10:05 AM EST
Microbiologist Amy Cheng Vollmer on Similarities Between Bacteria and Teenagers
Swarthmore College

Isaac H. Clothier Jr. Professor of Biology Amy Cheng Vollmer was recently a guest on Key Conversations, a podcast from the Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Society that features dialogues with PBK Visiting Scholars.

   
Released: 12-Dec-2018 4:50 PM EST
Researchers Design Technology That Sees Nerve Cells Fire
NIH, National Eye Institute (NEI)

Researchers at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, have created a noninvasive technology that detects when nerve cells fire based on changes in shape. The method could be used to observe nerve activity in light-accessible parts of the body, such as the eye, which would allow physicians to quantitatively monitor visual function at the cellular level.

Released: 12-Dec-2018 12:05 PM EST
What can a snowflake teach us about how cancer spreads in the body?
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

Conventional math cannot adequately model the interaction of multiple genes over multiple time frames – a necessary foundation for any cancer-fighting drugs. The study, published in “Frontiers in Physiology” by Mahboobeh Ghorbani, Edmond Jonckheere and Paul Bogdan of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, is the first study that accounts for the memory, cross-dependence and fractality of gene expression

   
12-Dec-2018 10:05 AM EST
DNA “Webs” Aid Ovarian Cancer Metastasis, Study Reveals
The Rockefeller University Press

Researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that ovarian cancer cells spread, or metastasize, to new tissue after being caught in DNA "webs" extruded by immune cells. The study, which will be published December 19 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, reveals that preventing immune cells from forming these webs reduces metastasis in mice, suggesting that similar treatments could be used to limit the spread of ovarian cancer in humans.

Released: 12-Dec-2018 10:05 AM EST
Resoluciones para el año nuevo: experto de Mayo Clinic ofrece sugerencias para vivir más largo
Mayo Clinic

A medida que el nuevo año se aproxima, entre las resoluciones de muchas personas está alcanzar un buen estado físico y mejorar el bienestar. Ahora, los científicos descubren que ambas mejoras pueden llevar a vivir más largo.

Released: 12-Dec-2018 9:40 AM EST
Media Advisory: Jhu Expert Available on Lab-Grown Meat
 Johns Hopkins University

A company in Israel has unveiled the world’s first lab-grown steak, grown in a petri dish with the taste and texture of one that comes from a cow. Jan Dutkiewicz, a postdoctoral fellow in political science at Johns Hopkins University has researched the emergence of cellular agriculture. He is available to talk about the new steak and offer perspective on the development.

Released: 12-Dec-2018 9:00 AM EST
Seeing Small-Molecule Interactions Inside Cells (Video)
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Like people in a large company, proteins in cells constantly interact with each other to perform various jobs. To develop new disease therapies, researchers are trying to control these interactions with small-molecule drugs that cause specific proteins to associate more or less with their “coworkers.” Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ journal Analytical Chemistry have developed a method to visualize whether drugs are regulating protein–protein interactions inside cells.

   


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