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Gene therapy is expected to alleviate cancer and dementia?
Time of Update: 2021-10-01
This discovery helps scientists develop diagnostic test methods and drugs that target one or more proteins in order to detect and treat certain types of cancer and neurological diseases as early as possible; this new drug is expected to be useful for cancer and dementia patients Provide new treatments .
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Brain molecules help "wake up" cells and help treat MS and similar diseases
Time of Update: 2021-10-01
In the adult brain, they exist partly because they replenish damaged or lost cells, including oligodendrocytes," said Voronova, who is also in neuroscience and mental health.
"Voronova's research showed that fractalkine-a molecule previously thought to only function in the immune system-significantly stimulated the transformation of neural stem cells into oligodendrocytes .
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Losing weight may require more intensive and personalized strategies
Time of Update: 2021-10-01
"In our healthy weight trial, motivational and environmental strategies led to a moderate but not significant weight loss effect," said Penn Nursing Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and George A.
"The article "The Impact of Financial Incentives and Environmental Strategies on Weight Loss in Healthy Weight Studies" can be found online .
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Mammalian evolution reveals key genes for human longevity
Time of Update: 2021-10-01
Now, an international research team led by researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Pompeii Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, is involved in a comparative genome study of the evolution of 57 mammals.
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Nature Explains Important Cell Modification Process: Key Steps in Adding Chemical Labels to Transfer RNA
Time of Update: 2021-10-01
A new study by researchers at Penn State University reveals the chemical steps involved in adding an important tag—methyl sulfur group to transfer RNA.
Imaging the effects of MiaB and SAM molecules and tRNA at several points during the methylthiolation process allows researchers to infer the chemical steps in the modification process .
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Scientists make environmental protection "cloth masks" to block aerosol viruses
Time of Update: 2021-10-01
Researcher Saptarshi Basu said: "Our research results show that cotton and towel fabrics are the most effective of all fabrics, and must be stitched together in multiple layers to make a homemade mask .
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Dan Zhu's research team from the School of Urban and Environmental Sciences published a paper revealing how the hunter-gatherer population density is constrained by the ecological environment
Time of Update: 2021-10-01
In order to explore the quantitative mechanism through which the ecosystem affects population density, the Zhu Dan research team of the School of Urban and Environmental Sciences of Peking University constructed the first global vegetation-animal-human (hunter-gatherer) phase based on the existing land surface process model.
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Reduce cancer cell metastasis, "Science" sub-journal cover study discovers new tumor suppressor targets in blood vessels
Time of Update: 2021-10-01
Using neutralizing antibodies against this factor, the researchers successfully slowed the growth of metastatic tumors in a mouse model of cancer cell lung metastasis .
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Genetic regulation of blood cells: proximity of genes to genetic changes plays an important role
Time of Update: 2021-09-30
Christiansen, Rick Jansen, Ilkka Seppälä, Lin Tong, Alexander Teumer, Katost Verlou Schramm, Gibran Hewlou, , Hanieh Yaghootkar, Reyhan Sönmez Flitman, Andrew Brown, Viktorija Kukushkina, Anette Kalnapenkis, Sina Rüeger, Eleonora Porcu, Jaanika Kronberg, Johannes Kettunen, Bernett Lee, Futao Zhang, Ting Qi, Arnin Jose Alquicira, Frank, Wibo Beutner, Peter AC ’t Hoen, Joyce van Meurs, Jenny van Dongen, Maarten van Iterson, Morris A.
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Scientists have discovered that sterols are necessary for the accumulation of oil in plants
Time of Update: 2021-09-30
Professor Xu said: "We found that the lack of a special type of sterol can lead to a decrease in the accumulation of oil in seeds and leaves .
If a sample of plant tissue-leaves, stems or seeds-contains lipid droplets, they will turn into small green spots under a fluorescence microscope .
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Special transcription factors and their target genes are important ways to treat rare leukemias
Time of Update: 2021-09-30
BATF3 as an important transcription factor for signal transmission in anaplastic large cell lymphoma caused by a team of researchers Olaf Merkel of MedUni Vienna and Lucas Kenner (also at the Institute of Clinical Pathology at the Vienna Veterinary University) collaborative research The group's Stephan Mathas Max Delbrück Molecular Medicine Center Helmholtz Association (MDC), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and MDC's Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), and Charité have now tested the role of the transcription factor BATF3 in ALCL .
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"One arrow and three eagles" for the treatment of solid tumors CAR-M therapy obtained FDA fast track qualification
Time of Update: 2021-09-30
Reference materials:[1] CARISMA Therapeutics Announces US Food and Drug Administration Grants Fast Track Designation to CT-0508 for the Treatment of Patients with Solid Tumors.
Retrieved September 22, 2021, from https:// -therapeutics-announces-us-food-and-drug-administration-grants-fast-track-designation-to-ct-0508-for-the-treatment-of-patients-with-solid-tumors-301381843.
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Research finds ways to use radiation to convert organic waste into renewable biofuel additives
Time of Update: 2021-09-30
In a research paper titled "Renewable Fuel Additives for Organic Waste Produced by Nuclear Power" published in the scientific journal "Communication Chemistry", the engineers proposed a method for using biochemical and nuclear industry waste to produce this additive Sol The process of ketones, which is called nuclear refining .
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Scientists develop artificial intelligence methods to predict anti-cancer immunity
Time of Update: 2021-09-30
The pMTnet technology detailed online in "Natural Machine Intelligence" may lead to new methods for predicting cancer prognosis and potential responses to immunotherapy .
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Song Mingke's research group at Shanghai Jiaotong University proposes a new biomarker for Alzheimer's disease
Time of Update: 2021-09-30
Recently, the Song Mingke research group of the School of Basic Medical Sciences published a paper "Imaging asparaginyl endopeptidase (AEP) in the live brain as a biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease" in the Journal of Nanobiotechnology, the first to report that brain imaging analysis of asparaginyl endopeptidase (AEP) is expected to become A new biomarker for early diagnosis of AD .
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Enhertu compared with enmetrastuzumab (T-DM1) reduces the risk of progression or death in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer by 72%
Time of Update: 2021-09-30
Based on the results of the DESTINY-Breast01 trial, DS8201 is approved in the United States, Japan, the European Union and several other countries for the treatment of unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer adult patients who have received two or more anti-HER2 therapies .
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Nature Communications: Peking University researchers reveal the structural basis of light energy transmission in cyanobacterial phycobilisomes
Time of Update: 2021-09-30
The paper uses cryo-electron microscopy to analyze the high-resolution structures of two cyanobacteria phycobilisomes (Phycobilisomes, PBS) for the first time, and combined with biochemical experiments, it is the first to prove that the aromatic amino acids on the PBS subunits directly participate in the excitation energy transfer (excitation energy transfer).
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Nature: New research "sniffs out" how associative memory is formed
Time of Update: 2021-09-30
" Today, scientists agree that the medial temporal lobe, also known as the “memory center” of the brain, has discovered the structure responsible for the formation of associative memory, but the specific cells involved and how these cells are controlled have remained the same until now.
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An inherited brain disease actually "counter-attacked" after birth
Time of Update: 2021-09-30
Our research in mice provides New information about the causes of abnormal behaviors related to the syndrome, and shows that it is truly possible to cure in the future .
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Current Biology Yao Meng and Li Sheng's research group report based on DNA macrobarcoding to analyze the complex food web structure and species coexistence mechanism of a variety of carnivores in the mountains of southwest my country
Time of Update: 2021-09-30
The mountainous region of southwest China has the world's most diverse carnivore community (the photo is taken by the research team's infrared camera in the field) How carnivorous species coexist in the community in terrestrial ecosystems, and how to construct a complex food web structure between predators and prey, is one of the core issues of animal ecology research .
