by Max Planck Society The antiviral drug candidate molnupiravir (yellow) is incorporated into the viral RNA, where it leads to mutations (purple) that ultimately prevent the virus from replicating. Credit: MPI f. Biophysical Chemistry/ Florian Kabinger, Christian Dienemann, and Patrick Cramer The United States recently secured 1.7 million doses of a compound that could help to...
by Medical University of Vienna Credit: CC0 Public Domain Frequently occurring chronic skin inflammation like in atopic dermatitis (AD or neurodermatitis) and psoriasis have different causes such as genetic predisposition, stress or allergens. These frequently occurring skin diseases are mostly attributed by biomedical scientists to a disturbed immune system, although the noticeable thickening and flaking of...
UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA IMAGE: FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: CARLA CASTANY-PLADEVALL, ESTHER PÉREZ-NAVARRO AND ARANTXA GOLBANO. CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Protein alteration in the family of lamins causes several diseases, known as laminopathies, such as progeria or precocious ageing. A study in which UB researchers have taken part states that alterations in the levels of one of these...
When the brain forms a memory of a new experience, neurons called engram cells to encode the details of the memory and are later reactivated whenever we recall it. A new MIT study reveals that this process is controlled by large-scale remodeling of cells’ chromatin. This remodeling, which allows specific genes involved in storing memories...
