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Medicine DNA Methylation From Bacteria & Mircobiome Using Nanopore Technology Discovered (Medicine) 6 Apr 2021 Journal Name: Nature Methods Title of the Article: Discovering multiple types of DNA methylation from individual bacteria and microbiome using nanopore sequencing Corresponding Author: Gang Fang, PhD Bottom Line: Bacterial DNA methylation occurs…
Medicine Hypoxia, a Feature Inside Solid Cancer Tumors, Reprograms Methylation of Ribosomal RNAs (Medicine) 4 Feb 2021 Hypoxia — where a tissue is deprived of an adequate supply of oxygen — is a feature inside solid cancer tumors that renders them highly invasive and resistant to treatment.…
Medicine New Study Points to Better Diagnostics for Cancer (Medicine) 27 Jan 2021 Method helps researchers identify more reliable cancer biomarkers than traditional methods. A new University of California, Irvine-led study finds a new method for identifying biomarkers may aid in early cancer…
Medicine Oncotarget: Prognostic Biomarker for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Medicine) 25 Jan 2021 The cover for issue 52 of Oncotarget features Figure 1, "Volcano plots of DNA methylation in tumor tissues compared with nontumor tissue," published in "Reduction of T-Box 15 gene expression in tumor tissue is…
Biology Discovery of Aging Mechanism For Hematopoietic Stem Cells (Biology) 24 Dec 2020 Limited rejuvenation of aged hematopoietic stem cells in young bone marrow niche. By transferring mouse aged hematopoietic stem cells (aged HSCs, *1) to the environment of young mice (bone marrow…
Biology Vitamin D The Clue to More Autism Spectrum Disorder in Boys (Biology) 13 Dec 2020 A deficiency in vitamin D on the mother’s side could explain why autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is three times more common in boys, say researchers from The University of Queensland.…
