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Cells are crawling all over our bodies, but how?
For better and for worse, human health depends on a cell's motility –– the ability to crawl from place to place. In every human body, millions of cells –are crawling around doing mostly good deeds ––– though if any of those crawlers are cancerous, watch out.
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UW team stores digital images in DNA -- and retrieves them perfectly
Technology companies routinely build sprawling data centers to store all the baby pictures, financial transactions, funny cat videos and email messages its users hoard. But a new technique developed by University of Washington and Microsoft researchers could shrink the space needed to store digital data that today would fill a Walmart supercenter down to the size of a sugar cube. The team of computer scientists and electrical engineers has detailed one of the first complete systems to encode,...
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Gene therapy: A promising candidate for cystic fibrosis treatment
An improved gene therapy treatment can cure mice with cystic fibrosis (CF). Cell cultures from CF patients, too, respond well to the treatment. Those are the encouraging results of a study presented by the Laboratory for Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy at KU Leuven, Belgium.
https://www.biyologlar.com/gene-therapy-a-promising-candidate-for-cystic-fibrosis-treatment-haber-8759 -
Kongo Nehri Balıklarının Hızlı Evrimi
Fotoğrafta bir çift akvaryum çiklet balığı türü olan Telegramma brichardi bulunmaktadır. Fotoğraf:Oliver Lucanus
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Kongo Nehri Balıklarının Hızlı Evrimi
Fotoğrafta bir çift akvaryum çiklet balığı türü olan Telegramma brichardi bulunmaktadır. Fotoğraf:Oliver Lucanus
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Kongo Nehri Balıklarının Hızlı Evrimi
Fotoğrafta bir çift akvaryum çiklet balığı türü olan Telegramma brichardi bulunmaktadır. Fotoğraf:Oliver Lucanus
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İnsan Gen Terapisi '' İlaç Olarak Genlerin Kullanımı '' Kaderimiz Genlerimizde Mi?
Gen terapisi, hastalıkların tedavi edilmesi ya da hastalıkları önlemek amacıyla çeşitli insan genlerinin hedef hücrelere etkili bir şekilde aktarılmasına ve ekspresyonuna dayanan bir yöntemdir.
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İnsan Gen Terapisi '' İlaç Olarak Genlerin Kullanımı '' Kaderimiz Genlerimizde Mi?
Gen terapisi, hastalıkların tedavi edilmesi ya da hastalıkları önlemek amacıyla çeşitli insan genlerinin hedef hücrelere etkili bir şekilde aktarılmasına ve ekspresyonuna dayanan bir yöntemdir.
https://www.biyologlar.com/insan-gen-terapisi-ilac-olarak-genlerin-kullanimi-kaderimiz-genlerimizde-mi -
Her Zaman Arkadaşlarınızla İrtibatta Olmalısınız: Topluluğun Biyolojiye Etkisi
John Gurdon’un etkileyici ‘Hayvan gelişimde topluluğun etkisi’ (Gurdon, 1988) adlı makalesinin üzerinden sadece 30 yıl geçti.
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Her Zaman Arkadaşlarınızla İrtibatta Olmalısınız: Topluluğun Biyolojiye Etkisi
John Gurdon’un etkileyici ‘Hayvan gelişimde topluluğun etkisi’ (Gurdon, 1988) adlı makalesinin üzerinden sadece 30 yıl geçti.
https://www.biyologlar.com/her-zaman-arkadaslarinizla-irtibatta-olmalisiniz-toplulugun-biyolojiye-etkisi -
Highly efficient CRISPR knock-in in mouse
Genome editing using CRISPR/Cas system has enabled direct modification of the mouse genome in fertilized mouse eggs, leading to rapid, convenient, and efficient one-step production of knockout mice without embryonic stem cells. In contrast to the ease of targeted gene deletion, the complementary application, called targeted gene cassette insertion or knock-in, in fertilized mouse eggs by CRISPR/Cas mediated genome editing still remains a tough challenge. Professor Kohichi Tanaka and Dr. Tomomi...
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KÖK HÜCRELERE BAKIŞ:TANIMLAR, KAVRAMLAR ve SINIFLANDIRMALAR
İki binli yıllarla beraber kök hücrelerin rejeneratif tıp (yenileyici tıp) alanındaki öneminin giderek arttığını ve tıbbın geleceğini şekillendirme potansiyelini gözlemlemekteyiz.
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How knots can swap positions on a DNA strand
Physicists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Graduate School of Excellence "Materials Science in Mainz" (MAINZ) have been able with the aid of computer simulations to confirm and explain a mechanism by which two knots on a DNA strand can interchange their positions. For this, one of the knots grows in size while the other diffuses along the contour of the former. Since there is only a small free energy barrier to swap, a significant number of crossing events have been...
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Pancreas stem cell discovery may lead to new diabetes treatments
Stem cells in the adult pancreas have been identified that can be turned into insulin producing cells, a finding that means people with type 1 diabetes might one day be able to regenerate their own insulin-producing cells. The discovery was made by scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and provides further evidence that stem cells don't only occur in the embryo. The ability to produce the hormone insulin is crucial for controlling blood sugar (glucose) levels. In people with...
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Farklı Çeşitteki Patojenleri Tanıma Rehberi
Protozoa olan Giardia, giardiyaz adı verilen ishal hastalığına sebep olur. Giardia türleri serbest yaşayan (flamotin aracılığıyla) trofozitler ve yumurta şeklindeki kistler olarak bulunur.
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Farklı Çeşitteki Patojenleri Tanıma Rehberi
Protozoa olan Giardia, giardiyaz adı verilen ishal hastalığına sebep olur. Giardia türleri serbest yaşayan (flamotin aracılığıyla) trofozitler ve yumurta şeklindeki kistler olarak bulunur.
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New discovery in living cell signaling
A breakthrough discovery into how living cells process and respond to chemical information could help advance the development of treatments for a large number of cancers and other cellular disorders that have been resistant to therapy. An international collaboration of researchers, led by scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, have unlocked the secret behind the activation of the...
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22 . Kromozom
İnsanlar normalde her hücrede 23 çifte bölünmüş 46 kromozoma sahiptir. Her ebeveynden miras alınan bir kopya olmak üzere 22 numaralı kromozomun iki kopyası, çiftlerden birini oluşturur. İnsan genomunda toplamda 23, otozom olarak 22 adet bulunan kromozom çiftlerinden biridir. Normal insan genomundaki tüm otozomlar için geçerli olduğu gibi, kromozom 22 de iki kopya halinde bulunur. İkinci en küçük insan kromozomu olan 22. kromozom , yaklaşık 49 milyon baz çiftiyle,...
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Scientists discover how 'jumping genes' help black truffles adapt to their environment
Black truffles, also known as Périgord truffles, grow in symbiosis with the roots of oak and hazelnut trees. In the world of haute cuisine, they are expensive and highly prized. In the world of epigenetics, however, the fungi (Tuber melanosporum) are of major interest for another reason: their unique pattern of DNA methylation, a biochemical process that chemically modifies nucleic acids without changing their sequence. Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene expression caused by...
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Simple technology makes CRISPR gene editing cheaper
University of California, Berkeley, researchers have discovered a much cheaper and easier way to target a hot new gene editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, to cut or label DNA. The CRISPR-Cas9 technique, invented three years ago at UC Berkeley, has taken genomics by storm, with its ability to latch on to a very specific sequence of DNA and cut it, inactivating genes with ease. This has great promise for targeted gene therapy to cure genetic diseases, and for discovering the causes of disease. The...
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Small molecule acts as on-off switch for nature's antibiotic factory
Scientists have identified the developmental on-off switch for Streptomyces, a group of soil microbes that produce more than two-thirds of the world's naturally derived antibiotic medicines. Their hope now would be to see whether it is possible to manipulate this switch to make nature's antibiotic factory more efficient. The study, appearing August 28 in Cell, found that a unique interaction between a small molecule called cyclic-di-GMP and a larger protein called BldD ultimately controls...
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New stem cells go back further
One of the obstacles to employing human embryonic stem cells for medical use lies in their very promise: They are born to rapidly differentiate into other cell types.
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Firefly protein enables visualization of roots in soil
Plants form a vast network of below-ground roots that search soil for needed resources. The structure and function of this root network can be highly adapted to particular environments such as desert soils where plants like Mesquite develop tap roots capable of digging 50 meters deep to capture precious water resources. Excavation of root systems reveals these kinds of adaptations but is laborious, time consuming, and does not provide information on how growing roots behave. A new imaging tool...
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Antikorlar: Mutasyonlara Hiç Bu Kadar İhtiyaç Duyulmamıştı
İnsanoğlu tarihi boyunca hastalıklardan pek çok sıkıntı çektiği gibi, hala bu sıkıntıları aşmak için yollar aramakta. Kimi zaman ciddi enfeksiyonlar, kimi zamanda basit enfeksiyonlar geçirsek de, hepimiz hemfikiriz ki; hastalıklar can sıkıcıdır! Peki bizim için can sıkıcı bu sürece sebep olan virüsler ve bakteriler gibi dış etmenleri vücudumuz nasıl önce nasıl tanıyor ve nasıl hafızasında tutuyor? Hastalıklar konusunda büyük bir avantajımız var ki,...
https://www.biyologlar.com/antikorlar-mutasyonlara-hic-bu-kadar-ihtiyac-duyulmamisti -
Scientists discover an on-off switch for aging cells
Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered an on-and-off "switch" in cells that may hold the key to healthy aging. This switch points to a way to encourage healthy cells to keep dividing and generating, for example, new lung or liver tissue, even in old age. In our bodies, newly divided cells constantly replenish lungs, skin, liver and other organs. However, most human cells cannot divide indefinitely–with each division, a cellular timekeeper at the ends of chromosomes shortens. When...
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Genome-wide search reveals new genes involved in long-term memory
A new study has identified genes involved in long-term memory in the worm as part of research aimed at finding ways to retain cognitive abilities during aging. The study, which was published in the journal Neuron, identified more than 750 genes involved in long-term memory, including many that had not been found previously and that could serve as targets for future research, said senior author Coleen Murphy, an associate professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for...
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New method to grow zebrafish embryonic stem cells can regenerate whole fish
Zebrafish, a model organism that plays an important role in biological research and the discovery and development of new drugs and cell-based therapies, can form embryonic stem cells (ESCs).
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Brain's on-off thirst switch identified
NEW YORK, NY (January 26, 2015)--Neurons that trigger our sense of thirst--and neurons that turn it off--have been identified by Columbia University Medical Center neuroscientists. The paper was published today in the online edition of Nature. For years, researchers have suspected that thirst is regulated by neurons in the subfornical organ (SFO), in the hypothalamus. But it has been difficult to pinpoint exactly which neurons are involved. "When researchers used electrical current to...
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In a role reversal, RNAs proofread themselves
Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Building a protein is a lot like a game of telephone: information is passed along from one messenger to another, creating the potential for errors every step of the way. There are separate, specialized enzymatic machines that proofread at each step, ensuring that the instructions encoded in our DNA are faithfully translated into proteins. Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have uncovered a new quality control mechanism along this path, but in a...
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Wheat disease-resistance gene identified, potential to save billions
A gene that can prevent some of the most important wheat diseases has been identified--creating the potential to save more than a billion dollars in lost production in Australia alone each year. In a global collaboration including the University of Sydney's Plant Breeding Institute (PBI), the CSIRO, CIMMYT (Mexico), University of Newcastle, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, the gene Lr67 has been identified as providing resistance to three of the most...
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EMBO Conference Series Chemical Biology 2012
Latest News•Registration is open! •Event poster is now available for download Why You Should Attend•SummaryChemical Biology is a quickly growing highly interdisciplinary field, which investigates biological questions by using chemical strategies and tools. It has emerged to become an important and central discipline by itself complementing areas such as medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, cell biology, structural biology and biochemistry. Researchers in Chemical Biology find...
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Jeofiziksel değil, çevresel bir bariyer: Anadolu Diyagonali
Şekil 1. Anadolu ve yakın çevresinde biyolojik çeşitlilik sıcak noktaları.
https://www.biyologlar.com/jeofiziksel-degil-cevresel-bir-bariyer-anadolu-diyagonali -
Restoring vision with stem cells
Age-related macular degeneration (AMRD) could be treated by transplanting photoreceptors produced by the directed differentiation of stem cells, thanks to findings published today by Professor Gilbert Bernier of the University of Montreal and its affiliated Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. ARMD is a common eye problem caused by the loss of cones. Bernier's team has developed a highly effective in vitro technique for producing light sensitive retina cells from human embryonic stem cells. "Our...
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Neurons constantly rewrite their DNA
Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that neurons are risk takers: They use minor "DNA surgeries" to toggle their activity levels all day, every day. Since these activity levels are important in learning, memory and brain disorders, the researchers think their finding will shed light on a range of important questions. A summary of the study will be published online in the journal Nature Neuroscience on April 27. "We used to think that once a cell reaches full maturation, its DNA is totally...
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Nano-walkers take speedy leap forward with first rolling DNA-based motor
Physical chemists have devised a rolling DNA-based motor that's 1,000 times faster than any other synthetic DNA motor, giving it potential for real-world applications, such as disease diagnostics. Nature Nanotechnology is publishing the finding. "Unlike other synthetic DNA-based motors, which use legs to 'walk' like tiny robots, ours is the first rolling DNA motor, making it far faster and more robust," says Khalid Salaita, the Emory University chemist who led the research. "It's like the...
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How an RNA gene silences a whole chromosome
Researchers at Caltech have discovered how an abundant class of RNA genes, called long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs, pronounced link RNAs) can regulate key genes. By studying an important lncRNA, called Xist, the scientists identified how this RNA gathers a group of proteins and ultimately prevents women from having an extra functional X-chromosome--a condition in female embryos that leads to death in early development. These findings mark the first time that researchers have uncovered the detailed...
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An alternative TALEN/CRISPR-mediated gene insertion technique described in detail
A streamlined protocol for an alternative gene insertion method using genome editing technologies, the PITCh (Precise Integration into Target Chromosome) system, has been reported in Nature Protocols by Specially Appointed Lecturer Tetsushi Sakuma, Professor Takashi Yamamoto, Specially Appointed Associate Professor Ken-Ichi T Suzuki, and their colleagues at Hiroshima University, Japan. The PITCh system is more convenient and effective than existing methods for inserting foreign DNA into...
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An alternative TALEN/CRISPR-mediated gene insertion technique described in detail
A streamlined protocol for an alternative gene insertion method using genome editing technologies, the PITCh (Precise Integration into Target Chromosome) system, has been reported in Nature Protocols by Specially Appointed Lecturer Tetsushi Sakuma, Professor Takashi Yamamoto, Specially Appointed Associate Professor Ken-Ichi T Suzuki, and their colleagues at Hiroshima University, Japan. The PITCh system is more convenient and effective than existing methods for inserting foreign DNA into...
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Unpacking embryonic pluripotency
Researchers at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Trust- Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute at the University of Cambridge have identified factors that spark the formation of pluripotent cells.
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Discovery of an unexpected function of a protein linked to neurodegenerative diseases
Until today, the proteins known as ubiquitin receptors have been associated mainly with protein degradation, a basic cell cleaning process. A new function now described for the protein dDsk2 by the team headed by Ferran Azorín, group leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and CSIC research professor, links ubiquitin receptors for the first time with the regulation of gene expression. This discovery, published today in Nature Communications, opens up a double...
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Discovery of an unexpected function of a protein linked to neurodegenerative diseases
Until today, the proteins known as ubiquitin receptors have been associated mainly with protein degradation, a basic cell cleaning process. A new function now described for the protein dDsk2 by the team headed by Ferran Azorín, group leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and CSIC research professor, links ubiquitin receptors for the first time with the regulation of gene expression. This discovery, published today in Nature Communications, opens up a double...
https://www.biyologlar.com/discovery-of-an-unexpected-function-of-a-protein-linked-to-neurodegenerative-diseases -
Novel stem cell line avoids risk of introducing transplanted tumors
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) can become any type of cell in the adult body, offering great potential in disease modeling, drug discovery and creating replacement cells for conditions ranging from cardiovascular to Alzheimer's disease. But that promise comes with a risk: the possibility that transplanted hPSCs might also develop as unwanted tumors. In a new study published November 10, 2015 in the online journal eLIFE, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine...
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Genetically modified E. coli pump out morphine precursor
A common gut microbe could soon be offering us pain relief. Japanese bioengineers have tweaked Escherichia coli genes so that they pump out thebaine, a morphine precursor that can be modified to make painkillers. The genetically modified E. coli produces 300 times more thebaine with minimal risk of unregulated use compared to a recently developed method involving yeast. "Morphine has a complex molecular structure; because of this, the production of morphine and similar painkillers is expensive...
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Odd histone helps suppress jumping genes in stem cells, study says
A family of proteins known as histones provides support and structure to DNA, but for years, scientists have been puzzling over occasional outliers among these histones, which appear to exist for specific, but often mysterious reasons. Now, researchers have uncovered a new purpose for one such histone variant: preventing genetic mutations by keeping certain so-called "jumping genes" in place. This research, which began at Rockefeller University and was published May 4 in Nature, reveals a...
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Forensic botany uses plant DNA to trace crimes
Sam Houston State University is advancing the field of forensic botany with the publication of two recent studies that use marijuana DNA to link drug supplies and pollen DNA to aid in forensic investigations. In an article published in the International Journal of Legal Medicine, faculty and students from the Department of Forensic Science report that they developed a test to individualize samples of marijuana that could be used to link drugs across cases. The study examined 11 cases...
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Combining adult stem cells with hormone may speed bone fracture healing
A combination of adult stem cells and parathyroid hormone significantly increased new bone formation in laboratory animals and may speed the healing process for human bone fractures caused by osteoporosis, a new study shows. The study is published online by Molecular Therapy, a peer-reviewed journal in the Nature Publishing Group. Researchers used a combination of mesenchymal stem cells, which are derived from bone marrow taken from adults, and parathyroid hormone, also called PTH, which...
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Hacking the programs of cancer stem cells
All tumor cells are the offspring of a single, aberrant cell, but they are not all alike. Only a few retain the capacity of the original cell to create an entire tumor.
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Nerve cells use each other as maps
When nerve cells form in an embryo they do not start off in the right place but have to be guided to their final position by navigating a kind of molecular and cellular "map" in order to function properly. In a recent research study published in Nature Communications neurobiologist Sara Wilson, Umeå University, found that during embryonic development different parts of the nerve cell are important for guiding other nerve cells into their physical positions. "We found nerve cells do this in...
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4. ULUSLARARASI AVRASYA ORNİTOLOJİ KONGRESİ
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please do remember that the abstract submission deadline for the 4th International Eurasian Ornithology Congress is 1 February, and registration deadline is 1 March. In case you have not paid your registration fee or sent your abstract yet, you can do this on-line from the Congress website (see below). Let me draw your attention also to the optional pre-congress field program which organized for participants from outside Hungary (details at the website) to which...
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Decaying RNA molecules tell a story
Once messenger RNA (mRNA) has done its job - conveying the information to produce the proteins necessary for a cell to function - it is no longer required and is degraded. Scientists have long thought that the decay started after translation was complete and that decaying RNA molecules provided little biological information. Now a team from EMBL Heidelberg and Stanford University led by Lars Steinmetz has turned this on its head in an article published in Cell. The researchers have shown that...
https://www.biyologlar.com/decaying-rna-molecules-tell-a-story