Showing posts with label RNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RNA. Show all posts
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Sedentary Lifestyle And Your RNA

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Take a look at this paper from several years ago, abstract: Pioneering epidemiological work has established strong association of seden...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

MicroRNA Biomarkers for Type I Diabetes

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Here is a paper from several years ago suggesting that circulating microRNAs (small RNA molecules that affect gene expression) can be used...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

PTSD And Gene expression: The MicroRNA Connectiom

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Here is a fascinating article suggesting that post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with varying levels of certain microRNAs, which...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Fat Tissue miRNAs

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Here is an article from several years ago that should raise some eyebrows, and we'll have to keep track of further developments in thi...
Monday, January 7, 2019

Another MicroRNA And Colorectal Cancer

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Another microRNA has been shown to affect colorectal cancer, this time by targeting the Wnt pathway-controlling protein APC (that is typic...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Extracellular Vesicles And Neurodegeneration

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Extracellular vesicles have effects on Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, mostly negative but possibly also some pos...
Monday, April 30, 2018

MicroRNA Markers For Oral Cancer

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MicroRNAs may possibly be used as biomarkers for oral cancer .  Early diagnosis of cancer would be helpful for treatment – catch it early....
Monday, February 19, 2018

Soy, Genistein, And Prostate Cancer

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The soy isoflavone genistein has a variety of antitumor effects both in cell culture ( in vitro ) and in animal models ( in vivo ).  In par...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Possible Mechanisms Of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis And Frontotemporal Dementia

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Possible mechanisms underlying certain forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) have been established...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

Yaks And The Fat Cells

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By Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22519671 Of possible future relevance to humans, how ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

THOR And Cancer

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THOR may promote cancer , not Thor the Asgardian god, but THOR the long non-coding RNA. Targeting THOR via gene therapy may be a novel an...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

CRISPR Targeting RNA

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The CRISPR system is a crucially important, relatively new, system for targeted modification of DNA, and one that has implications for gene...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

High-Fidelity CRISPR

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A more accurate “high-fidelity” CRISPR system will enable more precise editing of genomes and opens up the hope for optimized gene therapy...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Circular RNA, Type 2 Diabetes, And Depression

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Production of circular RNA.  By Helixitta - Own work, created for Biology week #3, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.ph...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Cancer Stem Cell Switch

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By Philippe Hupé - Emmanuel Barillot, Laurence Calzone, Philippe Hupé, Jean-Philippe Vert, Andrei Zinovyev, Computational Systems Biology...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

The Vices Of Men

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By Vincent van Gogh - Scanned from Smoke: a global history of smoking (2004) ISBN 1-86189-200-4, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia...