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The mystery of the human spinal cord and its impact on our body
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
Tuan Bui, member of the Ottawa Institute of Brain and Thinking, associate professor of the Department of Biology, director of the Neuromotor Circuit Laboratory, and the corresponding author of this article, said: "Understanding how the spinal cord controls our body is for improving the treatment of movement disorders caused by neurological damage or disease.
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Science Sub-Journal: The first global prediction of the importance of pollinators to plant seed production
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
James Rodger, a postdoctoral researcher and first author in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU), said that this is the first study to conduct a global assessment of the importance of plant pollinators in natural ecosystems .
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Deteriorating vision for 40 years, patients see the light again, optogenetics, gene therapy, and fast track qualification
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
This product combines gene therapy with optogenetics to enable the patient's retinal ganglion cells to express light-sensitive proteins to respond to light pulses to treat retinitis pigmentosa (RP) .
Reference materials:[1] GenSight Biologics Announces FDA Grant of Fast Track Designation for Optogenetic Therapy GS030 as Treatment for Retinitis Pigmentosa.
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Intellia collaborates on the development of CRISPR gene editing therapy to treat blinding eye disease
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
On October 13, 2021, Intellia Therapeutics and SparingVision jointly announced that the two parties have reached a strategic cooperation to jointly develop new gene editing therapies based on CRISPR/Cas9 technology to treat ophthalmic diseases .
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A mysterious creature lacks a key gene to replicate DNA
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
Eelco Tromer, a molecular cell biologist at the University of Groningen, was one of the team members describing this strange creature in the journal Nature Communications on October 14 .
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PNAS: The sense of smell is our fastest warning system
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
The first author of the study, Behzad Iravani, a researcher in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of Karolinska Institutet, said: "For a long time, human avoidance of unpleasant smells related to danger has been regarded as a conscious cognition.
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Chinese scholars and overseas collaborators have made progress in the preparation of graphene nanoribbons and their transistor applications
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
Figure 1 Narrow graphene nanoribbons (GNR) from squashed carbon nanotubes (CNT) . (a) Combined high pressure and heat treatment to flatten single-walled and double-walled CNTs (left pic
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The Institute of Microbiology and others build an artificial intelligence-based virtual mutation assessment and early warning system for the new coronavirus
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
Recently, the Ma Juncai / Hu Songnian team from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , in cooperation with Peking University, the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other teams , released the "New Coronavirus Variation Assessment and Early Warning System" ( SARS-CoV) in the international academic journal Nucleic Acids Research .
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eLife: For the first time important immune cells are grown in the laboratory
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
Image: The research team led by Professor Martin Roelsgaard Jakobsen (right) and Associate Professor Rasmus Bak (left) has now clarified the key conditions needed to grow a large number of rare immune cells in the laboratory .
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Zhang Zemin's research team and collaborators reveal the mechanism of action of anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy combined with chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
Words for Java 18. 9" >On October 14, 2021, Peking University Biomedical Frontier Innovation Center (BIOPIC), School of Life Sciences, Beijing Future Gene Diagnosis Advanced Innovation Center (ICG) Zh
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An accidental discovery by Nature gave us a new understanding of how cells perform multiple tasks
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
Researchers at the Quantitative Biological Sciences Institute (QBI) at the University of California, San Francisco have discovered a new paradigm that can regulate basic biological switches at the molecular level, that is, they can be turned on and off to control cell differentiation, cell growth, and cells.
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Using B cells to cross the blood-brain barrier to deliver protein drugs to help develop new cell therapies
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
On October 13, 2021, Immusoft announced that it has signed a research cooperation and licensing option agreement with Takeda, which will use Immusoft’s immune system programming ISP technology platform to discover, develop and commercialize transformative cell therapies for Treatment of rare genetic metabolic disorders .
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New technology combines single-cell and metagenomic analysis to describe microorganisms
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
Metagenomics is an advanced DNA sequencing technology that can directly extract genetic material from mixed microbial populations and perform computer simulation and characterization at one time, while bypassing the tedious task of separating and cultivating different bacterial species from the mixture .
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Bacteria can produce strong immunity to resist viruses
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
Another system, called BrxU, uses modified DNA to protect bacteria from bacteriophages, thereby providing a second layer of defense .
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Qi Yijun's research group from the School of Life Sciences found that plants have an RNA-mediated gene co-expression regulatory network in the process of stress response
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
On October 14, 2021, Qi Yijun’s group from the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University published an online publication entitled "Whole-genome level analysis of RNA-chromatin interactions in the journal Nature Plants, revealing that the genes in Arabidopsis "Regulatory network" (Global profiling of RNA-chromatin interactions reveals co-regulatory gene expression networks in Arabidopsis) research paper .
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Salk scientists have discovered the most common mutated genes in all cancers
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
In this new study, Stites' team combined genomic and epidemiological cancer research data sets to determine the proportion of any gene mutation in all cancer patients .
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Nature: Scientists map out the brain circuits that drive the activities of reproductive women
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
This creates the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R), which is located on the surface of part of the estrogen-sensitive neurons in the brain called the ventrolateral hypothalamic nucleus (VMHvl), which is responsible for regulating adult women Energy usage .
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Targeted RNA-modifying enzyme $17 million upfront payment to help develop small molecule anti-cancer therapies
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
On October 14, 2021, Exelixis and STORM Therapeutics announced that they have reached a research and development cooperation agreement to jointly develop innovative small-molecule anti-cancer therapies that change the function of RNA .
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Potential link between Crohn's disease and adipose tissue discovered
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
Body composition analysis shows that lean tissue is reduced and The combination of high visceral fat predicts a poorer celiac disease outcome," the researchers wrote .
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The gene behind an unusual Cushing syndrome
Time of Update: 2021-10-19
Early diagnosis benefits from genetic analysis"In general, rare diseases are usually underdiagnosed in clinics," said Bourdeau, the medical director of CHUM's adrenal tumor multidisciplinary team .
