DZNE – GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES Contrary to what has been generally assumed so far, a severe course of COVID-19 does not solely result in a strong immune reaction – rather, the immune response is caught in a continuous loop of activation and inhibition. Experts from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the University of Bonn,...
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Mitochondria in Age-Related Hearing Loss
In this open access paper, researchers present evidence to suggest that the mitochondrial dysfunction that accompanies aging may be a meaningful cause of the loss of neurons that contributes age-related hearing loss, in the sense that it increases the incidence of necroptosis, a form of programmed cell death. Present thinking on the progressive deafness of...
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Researchers discover how cells know their future and forget their past
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN THE FACULTY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES Stem cells all share the potential of developing into any specific cell in the body. Many researchers are therefore trying to answer the fundamental questions of what determines the cells’ developmental fate as well as when and why the cells lose the potential of developing into any cell. Now, researchers from the Novo Nordisk...
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How Stem Cells Make Decisions
Posted Today This news or article is intended for readers with certain scientific or professional knowledge in the field. Pluripotency is a feature of stem cell populations in which individual cells must know a great deal about their surroundings. If you’re a human embryonic stem cell — and who among us hasn’t been — the G1 (“Gap 1”) phase of development is...
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Cells programmed like computers to fight disease
This is a figure showing RNA sequence of command. Led by Professor Alfonso Jaramillo in the School of Life Sciences, new research has discovered that a common molecule — ribonucleic acid (RNA), which is produced abundantly by humans, plants and animals — can be genetically engineered to allow scientists to program the actions of a...