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Perinatal exposure of rats to flame retardants changes the liver epigenome

NewsemiaDecember 14, 2019

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Studies have shown that perinatal exposure of rats and mice to common flame retardants found in household items permanently reprograms liver metabolism, often leading later...

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Photosensing and quorum sensing are integrated to control Pseudomonas aeruginosa collective behaviors

NewsemiaDecember 13, 2019

by NewsemiaDecember 13, 201900

by Sampriti Mukherjee, Matthew Jemielita, Vasiliki Stergioula, Mikhail Tikhonov, Bonnie L. Bassler Bacteria convert changes in sensory inputs into alterations in gene expression, behavior, and...

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Mediator MED23 regulates inflammatory responses and liver fibrosis

NewsemiaDecember 9, 2019

by NewsemiaDecember 9, 201900

by Zhichao Wang, Dan Cao, Chonghui Li, Lihua Min, Gang Wang Liver fibrosis, often associated with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinomas, is characterized by hepatic damage,...

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Mechanisms of species diversity in birdsong learning

NewsemiaDecember 4, 2019

by NewsemiaDecember 4, 201900

by Sarah Cushing Woolley, Jon Tatsuya Sakata Vocal communication is critical for social interactions across a diversity of animals. A subset of those animals, including...

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Changes in placenta could mean males born to older mothers more prone to heart problems

NewsemiaNovember 29, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 29, 201900

A new study in rats shows that older mother rats develop poorer placentas which are in turn related to later risk of heart problems in...

Biology

Loss of adenomatous polyposis coli function renders intestinal epithelial cells resistant to the cytokine IL-22

NewsemiaNovember 26, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 26, 201900

by Yu Chen, Maud Vandereyken, Ian P. Newton, Ignacio Moraga, Inke S. Näthke, Mahima Swamy Interleukin-22 (IL-22) is a critical immune defence cytokine that maintains...

Biology

GPCRs show widespread differential mRNA expression and frequent mutation and copy number variation in solid tumors

NewsemiaNovember 26, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 26, 201900

by Krishna Sriram, Kevin Moyung, Ross Corriden, Hannah Carter, Paul A. Insel G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the most widely targeted gene family for Food...

Gastroenterology

Discovery in C. difficile biology opens new window to developing treatments for dangerous infections

NewsemiaNovember 26, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 26, 201900

A process called sporulation that helps the dangerous bacterium Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) to survive inhospitable conditions and spread is regulated by epigenetics, factors that...

Biology

Regulation plays a multifaceted role in the retention of gene duplicates

NewsemiaNovember 24, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 24, 201900

by Johan Hallin, Christian R. Landry A gene duplication can lead to all sorts of problems in a cell. However, it can also lead to...

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Resolving noise–control conflict by gene duplication

NewsemiaNovember 24, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 24, 201900

by Michal Chapal, Sefi Mintzer, Sagie Brodsky, Miri Carmi, Naama Barkai Gene duplication promotes adaptive evolution in two main ways: allowing one duplicate to evolve...

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Single-cell transcriptomics of the naked mole-rat reveals unexpected features of mammalian immunity

NewsemiaNovember 22, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 22, 201900

by Hugo G. Hilton, Nimrod D. Rubinstein, Peter Janki, Andrea T. Ireland, Nicholas Bernstein, Nicole L. Fong, Kevin M. Wright, Megan Smith, David Finkle, Baby...

Biology

Local vulnerability and global connectivity jointly shape neurodegenerative disease propagation

NewsemiaNovember 22, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 22, 201900

by Ying-Qiu Zheng, Yu Zhang, Yvonne Yau, Yahar Zeighami, Kevin Larcher, Bratislav Misic, Alain Dagher It is becoming increasingly clear that brain network organization shapes...

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Wound healing events in mucous tissues could guard against AIDS

NewsemiaNovember 22, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 22, 201900

Wound healing events in mucous tissues during early infection by Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, or SIV, guard some primate species against developing AIDS, a recent study...

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Yale-led study provides roadmap to discover new treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

NewsemiaNovember 16, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 16, 201900

A Yale-led collaborative study boosts scientific understanding of how the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) progresses, providing a roadmap for researchers to discover new...

Biology

Transcriptional regulatory divergence underpinning species-specific learned vocalization in songbirds

NewsemiaNovember 13, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 13, 201900

by Hongdi Wang, Azusa Sawai, Noriyuki Toji, Rintaro Sugioka, Yukino Shibata, Yuika Suzuki, Yu Ji, Shin Hayase, Satoru Akama, Jun Sese, Kazuhiro Wada Learning of...

Biology

Recurrent functional misinterpretation of RNA-seq data caused by sample-specific gene length bias

NewsemiaNovember 13, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 13, 201900

by Shir Mandelboum, Zohar Manber, Orna Elroy-Stein, Ran Elkon Data normalization is a critical step in RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis, aiming to remove systematic effects...

Biology

The intragenus and interspecies quorum-sensing autoinducers exert distinct control over Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation and dispersal

NewsemiaNovember 11, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 11, 201900

by Andrew A. Bridges, Bonnie L. Bassler Vibrio cholerae possesses multiple quorum-sensing (QS) systems that control virulence and biofilm formation among other traits. At low...

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Glutamine-blocking compound slows cancer growth, unleashes anti-tumor immune response

NewsemiaNovember 10, 2019

by NewsemiaNovember 10, 201900

A compound developed by Johns Hopkins researchers that blocks glutamine metabolism can slow tumor growth, alter the tumor microenvironment and promote the production of durable...

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Discovery of causal link between hydrogen sulfide and schizophrenia

NewsemiaOctober 29, 2019

by NewsemiaOctober 29, 201900

Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have found certain chemical markers that are associated with schizophrenia. They worked with lab mice...

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Phase variation of a signal transduction system controls Clostridioides difficile colony morphology, motility, and virulence

NewsemiaOctober 28, 2019

by NewsemiaOctober 28, 201900

by Elizabeth M. Garrett, Ognjen Sekulovic, Daniela Wetzel, Joshua B. Jones, Adrianne N. Edwards, Germán Vargas-Cuebas, Shonna M. McBride, Rita Tamayo Recent work has revealed...

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Perinatal exposure of rats to flame retardants changes the liver epigenome

Photosensing and quorum sensing are integrated to control <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> collective behaviors

Mediator MED23 regulates inflammatory responses and liver fibrosis

Mechanisms of species diversity in birdsong learning

Changes in placenta could mean males born to older mothers more prone to heart problems

Loss of adenomatous polyposis coli function renders intestinal epithelial cells resistant to the cytokine IL-22

GPCRs show widespread differential mRNA expression and frequent mutation and copy number variation in solid tumors

Discovery in C. difficile biology opens new window to developing treatments for dangerous infections

Regulation plays a multifaceted role in the retention of gene duplicates

Resolving noise–control conflict by gene duplication

Single-cell transcriptomics of the naked mole-rat reveals unexpected features of mammalian immunity

Local vulnerability and global connectivity jointly shape neurodegenerative disease propagation

Wound healing events in mucous tissues could guard against AIDS

Yale-led study provides roadmap to discover new treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Transcriptional regulatory divergence underpinning species-specific learned vocalization in songbirds

Recurrent functional misinterpretation of RNA-seq data caused by sample-specific gene length bias

The intragenus and interspecies quorum-sensing autoinducers exert distinct control over <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> biofilm formation and dispersal

Glutamine-blocking compound slows cancer growth, unleashes anti-tumor immune response

Discovery of causal link between hydrogen sulfide and schizophrenia

Phase variation of a signal transduction system controls <i>Clostridioides difficile</i> colony morphology, motility, and virulence