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The early and accurate diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s is critical to providing quality care to afflicted individuals. Yet, with one of the largest populations of individuals aging...

After decades in which no novel therapeutic treatments were approved for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the past few years have seen the approval of several groundbreaking therapies...

COVID-19 testing has been a failure in the United States since the very onset of the outbreak. Sick patients have had to wait for hours in lines outside hospitals or overnight in their cars...

Although short read sequencing serves an important purpose in both the research and clinical arenas of genomic analysis, it is difficult to rely on short reads for some interrogations, such as structural...

Advances in gene therapy and gene editing represent the future for many rare diseases where a single administration may lead to durable and potentially curative treatments. These two approaches...

About 48 hours after a Seattle woman received the first dose of an experimental vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, scientists in China—not to be outdone—announced that they had regulatory approval...

A longstanding awareness in generating resistance to common antimicrobial therapies by Gram-negative bacteria has made them a major threat to global health. The application of antimicrobial...

awrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have identified an initial set of therapeutic antibody sequences, designed in a few weeks using machine learning and supercomputing...

There are several common challenges within the fields of infectious disease research, vaccine development, protective immune monitoring, and toxicity. These challenges involve developing vaccines...

Scientists in India report that they plan to carry out a number of research projects aimed at generating products that could be used for the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of COVID-19 infections...

Like Pac-Man frantically gobbling up pixelated dots, the world is furiously consuming data. Unlike Pac-Man, the world is in danger of becoming full—and soon. Data is entering our lives and...

Researchers at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the University of Dundee and the Wellcome Sanger Institute analysed over 2700 genomes from C. elegans worms...

The aggregation of proteins in amyloid structure, a process described in mammals and fungus and bacteria, is implied in about 36 human diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease...

A global team based out of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has developed a new paradigm in COVID-19 drug development by focusing on the host as well as the virus. The researchers...

In protein-protein interactions (PPIs), the participating proteins may have more activity, or less, depending on whether they have undergone a modification of some kind. The modification may be...

Scientists in Sweden report that smoking by pregnant mothers caused roughly a 1.5-fold asthma risk in their offspring at the ages between 31 and 46. The study “Maternal smoking during pregnancy affects...

Microclimatic variability in tropical forests plays a key role in shaping species distributions and their ability to cope with environmental change, especially for ectotherms. Nonetheless, currently...

Scientists at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have identified changes in how neurons in the brain behave that may explain the neurological basis by which physical exercise can improve our ability...

Until recently, scientists had assumed that there are about 80 open reading frames (ORFs) in the genome of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1). Now researchers at the...

Scientists from the University of York say they have recreated how toxins from smoking cause unique patterns of DNA damage. The discovery could help researchers better understand...