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TBX20 enhances the reprogramming of cardiac fibroblasts to cardiomyocytes
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
Article TBX20 improves contractility and mitochondrial function during direct human cardiac reprogramming Dr. Zhou Yang The mammalian heart has little ability to grow new cardiomyocytes, known as cardiomyocytes, after birth.
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Science Advances: What happens if your circadian rhythm isn't normal?
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
A new paper led by a researcher at the Wilmot Cancer Institute at the University of Rochester and the Scripps Research Institute in California says scientists have found an important molecular link between lung cancer growth and circadian rhythm disturbances.
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Nature Genetics: New findings on microglia
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
"Reference: Genetics of the human microglia regulome refines Alzheimer's disease risk loci Human microglia are immune cells found in the brain, and Mount Sinai researchers have an unprecedented understanding of their genetic and molecular mechanisms.
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One in ten older Americans has dementia
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
S. adults age 65 and older have dementia and another 22 percent have mild cognitive impairment, the first nationally representative study of the prevalence of cognitive impairment in more than 20 years.
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Potential therapies extracted from banana protein are effective against SARS-CoV-2
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
"When COVID-19 happened, we certainly wanted to study the potential of this therapy and find that it was effective for every type of coronavirus in vitro and in vivo," Markovitz said.
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A new and more effective way to control cancer metastasis
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
"References: Combination therapy of lymphatic drug delivery and total body irradiation in a metastatic lymph node and lung mouse model A team of researchers at Tohoku University in Japan has invented a more effective treatment for lymphoma.
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Science subjournal: Successfully cultivate fully mature hair follicles in culture
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
Image source: Yokohama National UniversityA team of researchers from Japan studied the process of hair follicle growth and hair pigmentation, and successfully cultivated hair follicles in culture.
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Zhejiang University recently released a Nature paper: TANGO2 can be used as a target for studying iron-rich blood molecules
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
Professor Caiyong Chen's team from the School of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, published a research paper in the top international journal Nature to reveal the important mechanism of intracellular heme transport.
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Natural selection for the Black Death sets the direction for how our immune system responds to the disease
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
The researchers extracted and screened more than 500 ancient DNA samples from the remains of people who died before, during the Black Death, or in London, including those buried in the plague crater in East Smithfield, which was used for mass burials in 1348-9.
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Science Advances: Accelerating DNA calculations with droplets
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
essayEngineering DNA-based synthetic condensates with programmable material properties, compositions, and functionalities ▲Picture (from left to right): Shin Young-dae, associate professor at Seoul National University (co-corresponding author); Professor Kim Do-nian of Seoul National University (co-corresponding author); Du Chenghao, a doctoral student in Professor Shen's research office (co-first author); Postdoctoral fellow in Professor Kim's lab Lee Chang-seok (co-first author).
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Minimally invasive robots implant a new flexible, maneuverable device in a living brain
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
In minimally invasive surgery on the brain, surgeons use deep penetrating catheters to diagnose and treat disease.
In minimally invasive surgery on the brain, surgeons use deep penetrating catheters to diagnose and treat disease.
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Why the adult heart can't regenerate
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
To further understand how and why heart cells change with age, Kühn collaborated with researchers and biomedical imaging experts at Pitt University, Dr. Yang Liu (associate professor of medicine and bioengineering), and Dr. Donna Stolz (associate professor of cell biology and pathology and associate director of the Center for Bioimaging) to observe the nuclear pores.
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Important protein structure of hepatitis C virus
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
A team led by scientists at the Scripps Institute and the University of Amsterdam has achieved an important goal in virology: mapping in high resolution key proteins that attach to the surface of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and enable it to enter host cells.
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Nature: How the Black Death changed people's immune systems
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
"Of the nearly 250 loci where genetic differentiation occurred, the researchers narrowed it down even further, focusing on the four most differentiated loci in samples before and after the Black Death, which contained genes and variants associated with Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.
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New study: obesity is actually a "neurodevelopmental disorder"
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
”Human connectionMost surprisingly, when the researchers compared their epigenetic data in mice with human data in a large genome-wide association study screening for obesity-related genetic variants.
Most surprisingly, when the researchers compared their epigenetic data in mice with human data in a large genome-wide association study screening for obesity-related genetic variants.
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The movement of female and parent rats affects the metabolic health of offspring
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
A mouse study conducted by Kristin Stanford, a researcher in physiology and cell biology at Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University School of Medicine, offers new ways to determine how parental exercise improves the metabolic health of offspring.
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A revolutionary way to observe cell trafficking
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
Enrica Bordignon explains: "When two nanobodies bind to a transporter, we can measure the distance between two magnetic probes in the cell using the EPR method.
Enrica Bordignon explains: "When two nanobodies bind to a transporter, we can measure the distance between two magnetic probes in the cell using the EPR method.
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New research: Understanding testosterone's role in depression
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
Researchers at Michigan State University recently received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue studying how the male and female brains respond differently to stress and how testosterone is key to enhancing resilience.
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Bears are not carnivores, no wonder pandas eat bamboo
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
Charles Robbins, a professor of wildlife biology at Washington State University, said: "In the strictest sense, bears are not carnivores, and they don't eat high-protein foods like cats.
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Scientists have discovered the genes responsible for the human brain
Time of Update: 2022-11-01
"Reference: Human-specific ARHGAP11B ensures human-like basal progenitor levels in hominid cerebral organoids A brain organ about 3 mm in size made from stem cells of chimpanzees.
"Reference: Human-specific ARHGAP11B ensures human-like basal progenitor levels in hominid cerebral organoids A brain organ about 3 mm in size made from stem cells of chimpanzees.
