Selenoproteins play key role in combating age-related cell damage, study finds
Many foods are often advertised for their antioxidant properties. Antioxidants counteract what are known as reactive oxygen ...
Science Daily1d
Selenoproteins: The fountain of youth?
Researchers find that certain antioxidant enzymes, called selenoproteins, significantly contribute to fighting cell aging. The team used a gene knockout mouse model to help them study the effects of ...
The Scientist13d
A Nuanced Knockout
For those frustrated by the brute force of knockout mice when studying gene function, in vivo RNA interference (RNAi) would seem to have come to the rescue. In theory, in vivo RNAi promises a more ...
MIT Technology Review8d
Mice with two dads have been created using CRISPR
It’s a new way to create “bi-paternal” mice that can survive to adulthood—but human applications are still a long way off.
C&EN7d
Researchers create mice born from 2 male parents
A research group led by Wei Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has created mice born from two male parents and capable of ...
Phys.org22d
Extracellular vesicles contain ion channels that make cell-to-cell cargo transport possible
They followed by isolating EVs from normal mice and knockout mice lacking the gene that encodes the BK potassium channel, and found the cargo in EVs from the knockout mice were very different in ...
Science Daily22d
The proteins that make cell-to-cell cargo transport possible
They followed by isolating EVs from normal mice and knockout mice lacking the gene that encodes the BK potassium channel, and found the cargo in EVs from the knockout mice were very different in ...
BioWorld7d
VASN knockout induces myocardial fibrosis in mice, study shows
Myocardial fibrosis is a key process for heart failure development that may lead to severe phenotypes, including cardiac arrest or sudden death. Vasorin (VASN) is a protein with high expression in the ...