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The pathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) involves selective degeneration of motor neurons in specific areas of the spine, brainstem, and cortices. The underlying mechanism of the degeneration is still unclear, but existing evidence suggests many factors including oxidative damage, excitotoxicity, apoptosis, and abnormal neurofilament function, among others. Published in...

With scientific advances, the holy grail pursuit of anything promising in terms of restoring one’s youth, vitality, and health has never been this steadfast. Indeed, people have been now aging slower and living longer, with an average life expectancy of 76 years. Researchers from the University of Liverpool in the...

* Experts at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital used a second-gen protein degradation technology in exploring CTCF. CTCF, a protein, plays a critical role in key biological processes such as transcription. Their study, which was published in Genome Biology,  brought to light the advantage of the approach and it opened doors for...

An increasingly functional, synthetic nerve cell that mimics 15 out of the 20 neural features characteristic of natural nerve cells has been Simone Fabiano and his team of scientists developing work at Linköping University since  2022. Published in the journal Nature Materials, the newly developed artificial nerve cell is termed...

In the tumor microenvironment, local immune dysregulation is driven in part by macrophages and dendritic cells that are polarized to a mixed proinflammatory/immune-suppressive phenotype. The unfolded protein...

Unc-51-like autophagy activating kinase 1 (ULK1)–autophagy-related 13 (ATG13) is the most upstream autophagy initiation complex that is phosphorylated by mammalian target-of-rapamycin complex...

Autophagy is an intracellular degradation pathway targeting organelles and macromolecules, thereby regulating various cellular functions. Phosphorylation is a key posttranscriptional protein modification...

Autophagy is the process by which cells degrade and recycle their own components. It helps maintain homeostasis which is crucial to proper cell functioning. Among the different subtypes of autophagy...

Around 194 million birds and 29 million mammals are thought to be killed each year on European roads, according to a new study that has ranked the most vulnerable species.An international research...

nherited prion diseases are caused by autosomal dominant coding mutations in the human prion protein (PrP) gene (PRNP) and account for about 15% of human prion disease cases worldwide. The proposed mechanism...

There is a broad range of mechanisms associated with chemoresistance, many of which to date are only poorly understood. The so-called cellular stress response—a set of genetic programs that enable...

Inside our cells, DNA is tightly packed and spooled around proteins called histones. Packaging DNA in this way allows large amounts of genetic material to exist inside the cell in a final form called...

In breeding programs aimed at conserving animals from small or isolated populations, scientists must balance the competing needs of adding genetic diversity and avoiding the introduction of harmful...

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia are increasingly recognized as significant opportunistic pathogens in healthcare settings worldwide, the global spread of multidrug-resistant strains of this species...

Molecular dynamics simulations (MD) have become a ubiquitous tool in modern life sciences. In these simulations, the interactions between atoms and molecules and their resulting spatial movements are iteratively...

Mitochondrial metabolic remodeling is a hallmark of the Trypanosoma brucei digenetic life cycle because the insect stage utilizes a cost-effective oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos) to generate ATP...

Lab.Equipment has your back when it comes to your everyday Bio industry news fix. Check out today's article that first appeared on Public Library of Science Biology: by Salim T. Islam, Israel Vergara Alvarez, Fares Saïdi, Annick Giuseppi, Evgeny Vinogradov, Gaurav Sharma, Leon Espinosa, Castrese Morrone, Gael Brasseur, Jean-François Guillemot,...

Protected areas across the globe are effectively keeping invasive animals at bay, but the large majority of them are at risk of invasions, finds a China-UK research...

A new method for engineering living materials called 'MeniFluidics', made by researchers at the University of Warwick could see a transformation in tissue engineering and bio-art, as...

A type of plant grafting that requires a tremendous amount of precision and skill has now been made faster and easier thanks to a simple transparent container. Researchers at Nagoya University have developed...