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By stimulating macrophages—a type of white blood cell—with biological factors that mimic infection, researchers have ...
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Loss-of-function mutations in the CTNNB1 gene cause β-catenin deficiency, leading to CTNNB1 syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder marked by motor and cognitive impairments. Because the disease ...
Dubbed the ‘guardian of the genome’, the p53 protein responds to DNA damage by stalling cell division, initiating DNA repair ...
The ability to correct disease-causing genetic mistakes using genome editors holds great promise in medicine, but it is not ...
Waltham, Massachusetts–based Skyhawk Therapeutics has been collecting collaborations with larger companies in spades since ...
Children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) showed motor function improvements after switching to onasemnogene abeparvovec ...
A new study, led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), identified tiny pieces of messenger RNA that are missing in pediatric high-grade glioma tumors but not in normal brain ...
Arrow worms, or chaetognaths, are strange ocean predators that have puzzled scientists for more than a century. They have ...
A new discovery about mutations in a gene that causes ALS may allow researchers to design targeted therapies, a study found.
Our RNA-seq analysis of Ptbp1 -depleted astrocytes showed minimal alterations in astrocytic gene expression but obvious changes in RNA splicing profiles, confirming loss of PTBP1 function. However, ...
World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.