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CCR4-NOT complex in stress resistance and longevity in C. elegans
Medical Xpress· 3 days agoThe ability to mount an adaptive response to environmental stress is crucial in organismal survival and overall fitness. In the context of aging, many genes that mediate resistance ...
Dysfunctional enzyme may lead to liver disease, research suggests
Medical Xpress· 23 hours agoA dysfunctional enzyme may lead to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in mice, according to a study...
Towards molecular and phenotypic characterization of VEXAS syndrome
Medical Xpress· 2 days agoVEXAS syndrome is a rare, adult-onset, life-threatening autoinflammatory disease caused by a genetic...
Testing immune cells in the placenta may indicate the health of fetal brain immune cells
Medical Xpress· 4 days agoIt's not possible to monitor how microglia are developing within the fetal brain, but new research indicates that the health of fetal macrophages in the placenta can act as an indicator of the ...
3 Days in Space Were Enough to Change 4 Astronauts’ Bodies and Minds
New York Times· 2 days agoSpace changes you, even during short trips off the planet. Four people who spent three days off...
How calcium channel mutations lead to cognitive dysfunction
Medical Xpress· 23 hours agoThis finding builds on previous studies that determined that alterations in a gene known as CACNA1C are linked to increased risk of cognitive impairment and mental illness. CACNA1C encodes calcium ...
Spaceflight Biology Studies Help Launch New Multiomics Database, Sample Bank
GenomeWeb News· 3 days agoAn international team of researchers today released a major payload of health and biological data on...
Study suggests hypoxia overexpression causes pericytes to contribute to pulmonary hypertension
Medical Xpress· 2 days agoThe overexpression of hypoxia in pericytes contributed to severe pulmonary hypertension (PH) and right ventricular hypertrophy, whereas their removal of hypoxia relieved PH, according to Ke ...
With, not on: Reimagining autism in research | Newswise
Newswise· 2 days agoIn the past six months, Laura Hetrick has spoken to more researchers than she has in her last 14 years at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “The last thing an autistic person wants ...
Commercial astronauts shed light on flights' health impacts and create spaceflight atlas
Medical Xpress· 3 days agoDr. Christopher Mason, the WorldQuant Professor of Genomics and Computational Biomedicine at Weill...