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The new ALS blood test promises rapid diagnosis
Time of Update: 2022-09-08
Article titlemiRNA extracted from extracellular vesicles is a robust biomarker of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Image: Dr. Sandra Barnack prepares microRNA analysis of blood samples from ALS patients in the Brain Chemistry Laboratory.
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Plants also develop mitochondrial genomic mutations, but they can be repaired and are not passed on to future generations
Time of Update: 2022-09-08
How do plants experience mitochondrial mutations?Amanda Broz, a research scientist in the lab of Dan Sloan, an associate professor in the Department of Biology, led a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that revealed how plant mitochondrial genomes mutate, though rarely happen.
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Can we reverse the memory decline caused by age? Scientists say yes
Time of Update: 2022-09-08
Article titleLong-lasting, dissociable improvements in working memory and long-term memory in older adults with repetitive neuromodulation Image: A researcher performs a stimulus treatment through a hat.
Article titleLong-lasting, dissociable improvements in working memory and long-term memory in older adults with repetitive neuromodulation Image: A researcher performs a stimulus treatment through a hat.
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Chinese scholars have made progress in the field of thermoelectric energy materials research
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
The adjustment of crystal structure symmetry can further promote the acousto-decoupling of N-type SnSe crystals, realize the enhancement of "3D electron-2D phonon" transmission characteristics, and improve the thermoelectric properties of the material in a wide temperature range .
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Pang Quanquan's team from the School of Materials has made important breakthroughs in the field of fast-charging molten salt aluminum batteries
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
In response to this key issue, Pang Quanquan's team from the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Peking University and his collaborators reported for the first time a molten salt aluminum battery with high safety, non-flammability, ultra-low material cost, and fast charging .
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The secret to the extraordinary longevity of bats
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
Gerald Wilkinson, the study's senior author and a professor of biology at the University of Maryland, said: "Hibernation allows bats, and other animals, to stay in northern or far southern regions where there is no food for the winter .
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Cell: 1000 Genomes Project (1kGP) resources newly expanded high-coverage whole-genome sequencing to discover more SNVs, INDELs, SVs
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
Since then, researchers at the New York Genome Center, in collaboration with teams at Massachusetts General Hospital, Yale University, and the Human Genome Structural Variation Consortium (HGSVC), have expanded the 1000 Genomes Project resources from the original sample—expanding the cohort to 3202 samples, including 602 parent-child trios; and they were re-sequenced with high coverage using the Illumina NovaSeq instrument .
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Neonatal ketone bodies determine ovarian aging by regulating follicular reserve
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
Scientists from the State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University and the Center for Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital found that neonatal serum ketone body production can determine the number of primordial follicle pools by reducing ROS-induced primordial follicle apoptosis during follicular reserve formation in early life and quality .
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Nature Communications Gao Ning's research group reveals true..
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
Studies have shown that Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAC has a regulatory effect on the synthesis of poly-lysine sequences in nascent peptide chains, indicating that RAC may directly participate in the regulation of protein translation on the ribosome in addition to its folding function .
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New key to the treatment of Huntington's disease
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
However, a growing body of research, including a new study published in the journal Cell Reports, suggests that the disease may also stem from defects in the glia, which are found in the brain important supporting cells .
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East China Normal University's latest Nature article: Innovative immune cell therapy kills tumors
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
This original research was completed by the team of Zhang Jiqin, Liu Mingyao, Du Bing, and Li Dali from the School of Life Sciences of East China Normal University, the Yellow River Team of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, and Shanghai Bangyao Biotechnology Co.
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Individual cells are smarter than scientists previously thought
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
Reference: Multimodal perception links cellular state to decision-making in single cells Cells make choices not only based on external signals such as growth factors, but also based on information received from within the cell .
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Research teams from Fudan and Shanghai Jiaotong University jointly analyze the genomic characteristics of bladder urothelial cancer proteins
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
This achievement maps the protein genome expression profile of bladder urothelial carcinoma in a Chinese population and uncovers tumor-specific pathways and kinases .
This achievement maps the protein genome expression profile of bladder urothelial carcinoma in a Chinese population and uncovers tumor-specific pathways and kinases .
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CELL MOL LIFE SCI Ji Xiong's research group revealed the BRD2 interface..
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
On June 4, 2022, Ji Xiong's group from the School of Life Sciences and Life Center of Peking University published an online article entitled "BRD2 interconnects with BRD3 to facilitate Pol II transcription initiation and elongation to prime promoters for cell differentiation" in the journal Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences research paper .
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Stem cells generate specific human embryonic cells for the first time
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
Helps to study many problems in early embryonic developmentScience and Technology Daily, Beijing, September 1 (Reporter Zhang Mengran) A research team from the University of Leuven in Belgium has used stem cells to generate a new type of human cell in the laboratory .
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A Promising Approach for Difficult-to-Treat Depression: Deep Brain Stimulation
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the superior lateral branch of the medial forebrain bundle (MFB), which is associated with motivation and reward, revealed 12 months after DBS implantation, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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Zheng Aihua's research team jointly discovered a new mechanism of vector-host adaptation of arboviruses
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
Figure 1 Invasion does not affect vector-host adaptation of arbolavirusFig. 2 Non-coding regions affect vector-host adaptation of arbovirus Most viruses have a relatively narrow host phagocytosis and can only infect one or a similar class of species, such as the measles virus can only infect people, and the new crown virus can only infect mammals.
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Chinese scholars have made progress in the discovery and mechanism of liquid-like atoms in metal glass
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
This chain motion has been generated in high-temperature liquids and will become more pronounced with temperature decrease until it manifests as a fast dynamic mode at low temperatures in glass solids, suggesting that the inheritance of liquid-like atoms is essentially the inheritance of chain motion patterns.
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Eight years of sharpening a sword: Shenzhen University released important research progress on gene editing of Euglena and microinjection of single-cell microalgae
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
Therefore, the research team of Dr. Chen Zhenfan and Professor Wang Jiangxin used the single-cell microalgae microinjection method to successfully deliver macromolecular exogenous substances such as CRISRP/Cas9 into Euglena slender cells and achieve gene editing for the first time .
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Science Advances Jiao Yuling Group and Mathematical Center Zhang Lei..
Time of Update: 2022-09-07
Therefore, this study proposes a "seesaw" model - auxin signaling simultaneously activates the expression of REV and KAN1 to stably maintain the coexistence of the two regions, thereby theoretically maintaining the developmental pattern .
