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ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. A-myo-trophic comes from the Greek language. "A" means no. "Myo" refers to muscle, and "Trophic" means nourishment - "No muscle nourishment."
OCT 19, 2022 | 6:00 AM
At the end of 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), emerged in China. As of September 2022, SARS-CoV...
OCT 19, 2022 | 6:00 AM
The host antiviral innate immune response protects the host against infection. Like with other viruses, the host recognizes SARS-CoV-2 infection and triggers a series of signaling cascades t...
SEP 29, 2022 | 7:00 AM
Date: September 29, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Development and evolution are controlled, to a large degree, by regions of genomic DNA called enhancers that encode...
AUG 17, 2022 | 10:00 PM
Date: August 18, 2022 Time: 3pm AEST | 1pm SGT | 2pm JP/KR Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homologue (KRAS) is the most frequently mutated oncogene, present in approximately 25% of tumors...
JUL 28, 2022 | 6:00 AM
Date: July 28, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Hepatitis B and C continues to be a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, resulting in 1.1 million deaths and 3 million new in...
MAR 09, 2022 | 8:00 AM
Date: March 09, 2021 Time: 08:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CEST) Bioengineering technologies hold enormous potential to solve many of our world’s pressing problems. However, they...
JAN 31, 2022 | 6:00 AM
Date: January 31, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PST), 9:00am (EST) The advent of massively parallel next‐generation DNA sequencing (NGS) technologies has provided opportunities to radically improve str...
DEC 07, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: November 7, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Analysis of SARS-CoV-2–specific T cells is important to understand their role during acute disease and in long-term protection...
DEC 02, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: December 2, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Effective immunotherapy of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is hampered by the lack of suitable tumor-specific antigens. To ad...
NOV 15, 2021 | 6:00 AM
Date: November 15, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Targeted sequencing of respiratory viruses’ genomes is important to identify novel viral variants. Compared to amplicon sequenc...
OCT 13, 2021 | 10:30 AM
Severe SARS-CoV-2 infection often leads to development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), with profound pulmonary patho-histological changes post-mortem. In this study, we utiliz...
OCT 06, 2021 | 10:30 AM
Effective immunotherapy of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is hampered by the lack of suitable tumor-specific antigens. To address this challenge, we have combined high-throughput fl...
SEP 02, 2021 | 11:00 AM
La infección por el virus del papiloma humano (VPH) es el causante principal de cáncer de cuello uterino. Los tipos 16 y 18 del VPH son responsables...
AUG 25, 2021 | 7:30 AM
The misfolding of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) such as tau and α-synuclein (αSyn) has been associated with the on-set and progression of Alzheimer’s (AD) and Pa...
AUG 25, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Over 40 tandem repeats undergo expansion events that lead to neurological disease. This number is likely an underestimate as many repeats are difficult to amplify using existing short read s...