When the balance of the intestinal microbiota treats skin diseases
What if the secret to healthy skin lay in our intestinal bacteria? This is what a team of researchers was ...
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Key genes linked to DNA damage and human diseases discovered
Loss of Dscc1 leads to early developmental defects and increased genomic instability. AHeart and liver abnormalities Dscc1−/− E14.5 mouse embryos. ...
A new treatment developed to significantly slow the progression of retinal diseases responsible for blindness
Schematic illustration of a syringe-injectable inflammation-responsive hydrogel for suppression of inflammatory microglia to prevent photoreceptor death in retinitis pigmentosa. A ...
Are stressed brain cells the cause of neurodegenerative diseases?
Illustration of a brain cell in a person with Alzheimer's disease, showing the accumulation and clumping of tau proteins (blue ...
Protein modifications found to be key influencers in neurodegenerative diseases
α-Syn (gS87) PFFs have a reduced capacity to induce pathology formation, propagation, and toxicity in cells and in vivo. A, ...
Predicting neurodevelopmental diseases in children from parental characteristics
Neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, and the genes that can lead to them, vary within a population (on the left, brighter ...
Scientists find that a protein associated with neurodegenerative diseases is also linked to childhood brain cancer
Medulloblastoma cells preserved in 3D culture (tumor spheroids) or in 2D culture in the researchers' laboratory. Credit: Amanda Faria Assoni ...
Gene editing offers hope for people with hereditary diseases
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain A group of patients with an inherited disease had their lives transformed by a single treatment ...
Researchers find enzyme plays much more important role in preventing neurodegenerative diseases
Deletion of NMNAT2 in cortical glutamatergic neurons results in age-dependent axonal degeneration. A Body weight of cKO and their control ...
Researchers hack the internal clock of neurons to accelerate the study of neurological diseases
Neurons derived from human pluripotent stem cells. Credit: Studer Lab, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center The neurons that make up ...
