Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

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Predicting Immunotherapy Success

18.02.2020

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Overexpression of certain immunoproteasome subunits in melanoma are tied to anti-cancer immune activity

Laboratory analysis of a mouse brain shows the enzyme ASL (purple) prominently expressed in the locus coeruleus in the brainstem

Rare Metabolic Disorder Sheds Light on Brain Chemistry

30.01.2020

Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Deficiency of a common substance could be linked to cognitive and behavioral problems

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New Algorithm Predicts Gestational Diabetes

13.01.2020

Math & Computer Science, Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Technology & Applications, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

Timely prediction may help prevent the condition using nutritional and lifestyle changes

Igor Ulitsky

Chasing a Link

09.01.2020

Life Sciences, Brain & Behavior, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

A non-coding gene’s neighbors reveal what it does for a “living.” The findings may pave the way to developing therapies for epilepsy and autism

Arenacept

Decoy Molecule Neutralizes a Range of Viruses

07.01.2020

Structural Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

The molecule points the way toward treating viruses that cross from animals to humans

Eran Hornstein

Why is this Nerve Cell Different? Finding the Genetic Roots of ALS

02.01.2020

Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

Q & A with Prof. Eran Hornstein on discovering why mutations in a gene for a tiny non-coding RNA could herald the onset of neurodegenerative...

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Blue-Sky Dye Spells Hope for Improving Heart Function

05.12.2019

Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

The small molecule reduces damaging inflammation and improves heart function in mouse models of heart attack

Rivka Dikstein

New Molecules Precisely Target Mutant Disease Gene

02.12.2019

Biochemistry, Personalized Medicine, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

These molecules may prevent only some of a crucial gene's activities without affecting others

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How Cone Snail Venom Kills

24.10.2019

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

A newly discovered mechanism may lead to better potassium- blocking drugs and improved natural pesticides

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Ebola Antibodies at Work

07.10.2019

Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Scientists in Israel and Germany show, on the molecular level, how an experimental vaccine offers long-term protection against the disease

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