Improving rapid tests: DNA nanotechnology boosts sensitivity of test strips
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, pretty much everybody is familiar with this technology: paper-based rapid test strips, also ...
Scientists Discover New Way To Target Hard-To-Treat Cancers
The double ring, spool-like structure of RAD52 protects replicating DNA in dividing cells. A study led by the University of ...
Biochemists Uncover How Cells Eliminate RNA Splicing Errors
Heidelberg biochemists and structural biologists from Shanghai unravel the roles of two key regulatory factors in mRNA ...
Novel genomic screening tool enables precision reverse-engineering of genetic programming in cells
Collaborative research led by investigators at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center defines a novel approach to understanding how certain proteins called transcription ...
Pancreatic cells 'remember' cancer-linked epigenetic marks without mutations, study shows
Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic "marks" in a transition state between ...
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Drug-carrying DNA aptamers offer dual action against leukemia stem cells
Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers at the University of Illinois ...
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Drug-delivering aptamers target leukemia stem cells for one-two knockout punch
Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers report. The aptamers -- short ...
New function of DNA repair protein ATR discovered
Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have discovered a new function of the DNA ...