Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Buildup of a protein called filamentous actin, or F-actin, in the brain inhibits the removal of cellular wastes, including DNA, lipids, proteins and organelles. The resulting accumulation of waste diminishes neuronal functions and contributes to cognitive decline.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 20, 2025

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the 'dark side' of the genome, researchers have now revealed their crucial role in early embryo development.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 1, 2025

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick Institute.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 16, 2024

To better understand the timing of this replacement, researchers sequenced mitochondrial DNA from archaeological dogs. Previous scientific studies have indicated that North American dog lineages were replaced with European ones between 1492 and the present day.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 22, 2024

New research has found that thousands of DNA sequences originating from ancient viral infections are expressed in the brain, with some contributing to susceptibility for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 19, 2024

The science team designed a turbine engineered from DNA that is powered by hydrodynamic flow inside a nanopore, a nanometer-sized hole in a membrane of solid-state silicon nitride. Scientists have created a working nanoscale electomotor.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers has revealed new insights into how ancient Europeans adapted to their environments over 7,000 years of European history.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Also featured are the FKBP12 binding motif (light blue triangle), the DNA barcode (red double helix), and the combinatorial library element (red hexagon). Related groups Xavier lab Over the past two decades, large genetic studies have linked tens of thousands of DNA variants to thousands of human traits and diseases.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 15, 2025

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that the damage has multiple chances to generate harmful mutations, which can lead to cancer.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 23, 2024

Researchers describe the steps they took to manipulate DNA and proteins -- essential building blocks of life -- to create cells that look and act like cells from the body. This accomplishment, a first in the field, has implications for efforts in regenerative medicine, drug delivery systems and diagnostic tools.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Two major theories of aging both involve DNA, but in very different ways. Researchers have revealed that these theories may not be so different after all.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By analysing ancient DNA, an international team of researchers have uncovered cases of chromosomal disorders, including what could be the first case of Edwards syndrome ever identified from prehistoric remains.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Researchers introduce a pioneering breakthrough in the world of nanomotors -- the DNA origami nanoturbine. The core of this pioneering discovery is the design, construction, and driven motion of a 'DNA origami' turbine, which features three chiral blades, all within a minuscule 25-nanometer frame, operating in a solid-state nanopore.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MARCH 8, 2024

For the first time, scientists have developed artificial nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, with several additional properties in the laboratory.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Researchers have come one step closer to unlocking the potential of synthetic DNA, which could help scientists develop never-before-seen proteins in the lab.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A new study unveils a novel methodology to engineer colloidal quasicrystals using DNA-modified building blocks. The implications of this breakthrough are far-reaching, offering a potential blueprint for the controlled synthesis of other complex structures previously considered beyond reach.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The DNA double helix is composed of two DNA molecules whose sequences are complementary to each other. Fluorescent markers bound to one of the matching DNA strands make the duplex visible, and fluorescence intensity increases with increasing duplex stability.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Creating new technologically advanced sensors, scientists have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors capable of identifying various infections, cancers and other diseases.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

An international team of scientists has recently developed a novel type of nano engine made of DNA. The researchers are now planning to fit it with a coupling and install it as a drive in complex nano machines. It is driven by a clever mechanism and can perform pulsing movements.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 23, 2025

A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through generations, laying the foundations for new insights into the roots of human disease and evolution.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with its gigantic statues and treeless landscape has fascinated researchers for centuries. A new genetic study disproves the popular theory that the Rapanui population collapsed as a result of an 'ecocide' and shows that the Rapanui admixed with Indigenous Americans centuries before Europeans arrived on the island.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

The stakes of their findings are high: a ruptured nucleus can lead to elevated DNA damage that is characteristic of many diseases, including cancer.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 22, 2023

For the first time, a group of researchers have successfully extracted ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick. The analysis provides a fascinating insight into the diversity of plant species cultivated at that time and place, and could open the way to similar studies on clay material from other sites and time periods.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 20, 2024

A newly discovered code within DNA -- coined 'spatial grammar' -- holds a key to understanding how gene activity is encoded in the human genome. This breakthrough finding revealed a long-postulated hidden spatial grammar embedded in DNA.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 18, 2024

The researchers introduce and demonstrate the power of a novel synthetic strategy that expands possibilities in metamaterial design. A new paper describes a significant leap forward in assembling polyhedral nanoparticles. These are the unusual materials that underpin 'invisibility cloaks' and ultrahigh-speed optical computing systems.

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Drugs.com

AUGUST 13, 2024

13, 2024 -- New research suggests that switching from smoking to vaping won't prevent some dangerous changes to a person's genome.A TUESDAY, Aug. new study conducted in young adults shows similar cancer-linked gene changes in both vapers and.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 8, 2023

Researchers report that two-spot octopuses adapt to seasonal temperature shifts by producing different neural proteins under warm versus cool conditions. The octopuses achieve this by editing their RNA, the messenger molecule between DNA and proteins.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

New research examines thousands of years of Arctic sled dog ancestry and reveals when and how Siberian and Alaskan sled dogs' DNA mixed.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years. The research suggests a new origin for kefir cheese and sheds light on the evolution of probiotic bacteria.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

New research shows that the Vikings traveled more than 6,000 kilometers to the Arctic to hunt for walrus. DNA analyses reveal that walrus ivory from Greenland was brought to Europe and probably as far as the Middle East [M1] via extensive trade networks.

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Drugs.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Now, exactly how tobacco smoke triggers tumor development just got a bit clearer, thanks to new Canadian research. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 -- Everyone knows smoking to be a major cause of cancer. According to a team at the Ontario Institute for.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A research team describes how they engineered an efficient new enzyme that can produce a synthetic genetic material called threose nucleic acid.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A new study describes how researchers used ancient DNA to corroborate the events of the saga and discover details about the 'Well-man,' blending history and archaeology with science and setting a precedent for future research on historical figures.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 28, 2024

Researchers found that approximately one in 40 human bone marrow cells carry massive chromosomal alterations without causing any apparent disease or abnormality.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 29, 2024

New research has determined the spatial structure of various processes of a novel gene-editing tool called 'prime editor.' Functional analysis based on these structures also revealed how a 'prime editor' could achieve reverse transcription, synthesizing DNA from RNA, without 'cutting' both strands of the double helix.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 10, 2024

Ancient DNA from bones and teeth hints at a role of the plague in Stone Age population collapse. Contrary to previous beliefs, the plague may have diminished Europe's populations long before the major plague outbreaks of the Middle Ages, new research shows.

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