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12 June 2024

Antioxidant gel preserves islet function after pancreas removal

Before surgeons remove the pancreas from patients with severe, painful chronic pancreatitis, they first harvest insulin-producing tissue clusters, called islets, and transplant them into the vasculature of the liver. The goal of the transplant is to preserve a patient’s ability to control their own blood-glucose levels without insulin injections.

7 June 2024

Google wants to index your DNA

A new DNA search tool, akin to a Google for genetic material, shows great potential, as reported by its Swiss creators. In a groundbreaking study, they managed to index 10 percent of the globes known DNA, RNA, and protein sequences, suggesting that this approach could feasibly expand to encompass the entirety of biological sequence data.

6 June 2024

Rare Disease DNA-Damaging Mutation could have consequences for more common conditions

TREX1 is a gene that is supposed to direct the maintenance of the entire body DNA, but new research shows that when people are born with mutated TREX1, it causes catastrophic damage to the DNA over time, resulting in a deadly rare disease called retinal vasculopathy with cerebral leukoencephalopathy

6 June 2024

Oral insulin drops offer relief for diabetes patients

Pre-clinical tests showed that insulin with the peptide effectively reaches the bloodstream whereas without the peptide, insulin remains stuck in the inside lining of the mouth.

5 June 2024

Researchers develops novel antibody treatment for Kidney Cancer

Antibody therapies called bispecific T cell engagers have emerged as effective treatments for some blood cancers but have been more difficult to develop for solid tumors. While clinically successful, first-generation BTEs suffer a short half-life.

5 June 2024

A new study by Florida Atlantic Universitys Schmidt College of Medicine has uncovered a disturbing trend in drug-related infant deaths in the United States from 2018 to 2022.

31 May 2024

Scientists discover a novel modulator of human regulatory T cells

The T cells in our blood fight against cancer, viruses and bacteria. Specific regulatory T cells are required to control faulty immune responses, and disruption in their function may lead to autoimmune diseases or cancer.

31 May 2024

Engineered DNA 'warhead' targets a common cancer mutation

Tumour protein P53 (TP53) plays an important role in suppressing the growth of tumours. Mutations in the gene for TP53 can have a disastrous effect, hampering the body's ability to fight tumours and even encouraging their growth. Because these are the most common mutations in cancers, TP53 has long been an interesting therapeutic target. However, efforts to destroy the mutant protein have been hampered by the difficulty of finding a way to bind to it.

31 May 2024

Heart healthy behaviors may help reverse rapid cell aging

The benefit of better heart health may be associated with the positive impact of heart healthy lifestyle factors on biological aging (the age of the body and its cells), according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.

29 May 2024

New study discovers tiny target on RNA to short-circuit inflammation

This peptide originates from within a long non-coding RNA called LOUP. According to the researchers, the human genome encodes over 20,000 lncRNAs, making it the largest group of genes produced from the genome. But despite this abundance, scientists know little about why lncRNAs exist or what they do

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