RESEARCH NEWS 2019-11-16 Research News Most GWAS hits lie in noncoding regions of the genome, making it hard to figure out what they do. To address this, researchers led by Christopher Glass at the University of California, San Diego, analyzed epigenetic data from purified ...
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-11-15 Research News Whether in the wake of a stroke, seizure, massive neuroinflammation, or a blow to the head, the endothelial cells of the blood-brain barrier respond with remarkable similarity, according to a study published in the November issue of Nature ...
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-11-15 Research News Lots of evidence suggests dipeptide repeat proteins translated from hexanucleotide repeat expansions in C9ORF72 interfere with transport of proteins in and out of the cell’s nucleus. However, an October 31 paper in Scientific Reports ...
RESEARCH NEWS 2019-11-13 Research News Updated November 14, 2019 Thirty-somethings take heed. A new study suggests it’s time to take care of your vascular health. Using data from the longest continuously running birth cohort in the world, researchers led by Jonathan Schott of ...