Immunotherapy plus chemotherapy improves outcomes in stage III dMMR colon cancer
A new study from researchers at the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (Alliance) shows that patients with…
Blood pressure drug boosts effectiveness of cancer therapy
In a new Dartmouth Cancer Center (DCC) study led by clinical researcher Tyler J. Curiel, MD, MPH, FACP,…
Tricorder Tech: Protein Sequencing Advance Offers New Insights Into Life’s Foundations
DNA-encoded Edman degradation on magnetic beads. (A) Reaction scheme for barcoding PTC amino acids via DNA-encoded Edman degradation…
New compound targets the neuronal epigenome to treat Alzheimer’s disease
A team from the University of Barcelona has designed and validated in animal models an innovative compound with…
Targeting protein fragment may improve Huntington disease treatments
Treatments that target a fragment of the mutant protein that causes Huntington’s disease might be more effective than…
AlphaFold Database expands with millions of predicted protein complexes
A new collaboration between EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Seoul National University has made…
DNA’s Building Blocks May Have Arrived from Space, Asteroid Ryugu Samples Suggest
Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases —…
Computational model predicts telomere length from biopsy images
A new computational tool infers changes occurring at the ends of the chromosomes housing our DNA. It does…
Uncovering Ancient DNA Sequences That Control Gene Function Across Plant Evolution
Phylogeny of the 284 species of plants included in Conservatory data set. Conservatory uncovered ~2.3 million conserved non-coding…
Ancient DNA Switches Found in Plants After 400 Million Years
When we think of evolution, the gradual evolutionary change comes to mind: dinosaurs turning into birds, ancient forests…
Secrets of evolution found in ancient plant DNA
The Takeaway CSHL Professor & HHMI Investigator Zachary Lippman and colleagues have identified more than 2.3 million conserved…
Reading DNA sequence and epigenetic modification state in 1 molecule
Some researchers say the genetic code has five letters: the four bases and methylated cytosine. The epigenetic marker…