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Rare gene mutation helps people resist Alzheimer’s disease
Anchorage Daily News· 11 hours agoScientists studied her DNA and scanned her remarkable brain, ultimately tracing her protection to a...
New Study Reveals: Father’s Pre-Conception Diet Plays Crucial Role in Child’s Health
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoA new study shows how a father’s diet before conception can affect his children’s health, suggesting...
12 recent scientific breakthroughs
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHuda Zoghbi, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine, said to NPR. Timothy syndrome is caused by a mutation of a single gene in a person's DNA. The new...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 2 days agoThe tech entrepreneur who once had his son’s plasma infused with his blood in an attempt to extend his own life now claims that he successfully slowed the aging process by undergoing an untested ...
NG2 glia cells shown to protect against prion-induced neurotoxicity and neurodegeneration
Medical Xpress· 21 hours agoResearchers at University of Zurich and Karolinska University Hospital at Solna carried out a study on mice aimed at better understanding the role of NG2 glia cells, a class of glial cells in ...
Research shows protein-rich diets may influence gut microbiome and body composition
Medical Xpress· 5 days agoA new study, presented at ASM Microbe, explores how excess undigested protein in the colon can be...
Progressive senescence programs induce intrinsic vulnerability to aging-related female breast cancer...
Nature· 3 days agoAging-related cancer incidence remains not fully understood. Here, the authors depict a progressive process of senescence in murine mammary stem cells at single-cell resolution, which is governed ...
Mars mission study reveals new jeopardy for human body
Newsweek· 3 days agoAstronauts on a future mission to Mars may not make it all the way to the Red Planet and back...
dsRNA formation leads to preferential nuclear export and gene expression - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoAntisense RNAs boost gene expression by accelerating the export of mRNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm through the Dbp2-mediated formation of double-stranded RNAs, which might explain the prevalence of antisense RNAs.
Scientists identify the genetic 'switches' of bone growth
Medical Xpress· 6 days agoIn mammals, only 3% of the genome consists of coding genes which, when transcribed into proteins, ensure the biological functions of the organism and the in-utero development of future individuals ...
