Sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder that causes lifelong suffering – here’s what you need to know
Accumulation of clots causes some of the most severe symptoms of sickle cell disease, including strokes, kidney failure, ...
Bioengineers Create “Smart Cells” That Detect and Fight Disease in Real-Time
Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Rice University bioengineers have ...
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Mitochondrial damage linked to beta-cell dysfunction in type 2 diabetes
Mitochondrial defects, however, are associated with the development of diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Patients who suffer from this disorder are unable to produce enough insulin or use the insulin ...
Computational tool maps cell differentiation with precision and efficiency
Understanding how cells transform into specialized types during human development is a central challenge in biology. This ...
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Denali Therapeutics Announces Primary Analysis and Long-Term Follow-Up of Phase 1/2 Study in Hunter Syndrome (MPS II) with Tividenofusp Alfa
Long-term safety data with median follow-up of two years, and out to more than four years, demonstrate that tividenofusp alfa was generally well tolerated Regulatory submission for accelerated ...
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Who Discovered the Cause of Down Syndrome?
It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...
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People with this rare genetic condition can't repair damage to their DNA
LIG4 syndrome is an exceptionally rare disorder caused by a genetic mutation that prevents the body from repairing damaged ...