Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging

P Singh, K Gollapalli, S Mangiola, D Schranner… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Aging is associated with changes in circulating levels of various molecules, some of which
remain undefined. We find that concentrations of circulating taurine decline with aging in …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review of bioinformatics tools for genomic biomarker discovery driving precision oncology

AJ Clark, JW Lillard Jr - Genes, 2024 - mdpi.com
The rapid advancement of high-throughput technologies, particularly next-generation
sequencing (NGS), has revolutionized cancer research by enabling the investigation of …

Exhaustion-associated cholesterol deficiency dampens the cytotoxic arm of antitumor immunity

C Yan, L Zheng, S Jiang, H Yang, J Guo, L Jiang, T Li… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The concept of targeting cholesterol metabolism to treat cancer has been widely tested in
clinics, but the benefits are modest, calling for a complete understanding of cholesterol …

Association between pretreatment emotional distress and neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade response in melanoma

I Fraterman, ILM Reijers, P Dimitriadis, A Broeks… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) outperforms adjuvant ICB for treatment of
stage IIIB–D melanoma, but potential biomarkers of response, such as interferon-gamma …

Dissecting key regulators of transcriptome kinetics through scalable single-cell RNA profiling of pooled CRISPR screens

Z Xu, A Sziraki, J Lee, W Zhou, J Cao - Nature Biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
We present a combinatorial indexing method, PerturbSci-Kinetics, for capturing whole
transcriptomes, nascent transcriptomes and single guide RNA (sgRNA) identities across …

Endogenous aldehyde-induced DNA–protein crosslinks are resolved by transcription-coupled repair

Y Oka, Y Nakazawa, M Shimada, T Ogi - Nature Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
DNA–protein crosslinks (DPCs) induced by aldehydes interfere with replication and
transcription. Hereditary deficiencies in DPC repair and aldehyde clearance processes …

Chromatin context-dependent regulation and epigenetic manipulation of prime editing

X Li, W Chen, BK Martin, D Calderon, C Lee, J Choi… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
We set out to exhaustively characterize the impact of the cis-chromatin environment on
prime editing, a precise genome engineering tool. Using a highly sensitive method for …

A nuclear receptor HR96-related gene underlies large trans-driven differences in detoxification gene expression in a generalist herbivore

M Ji, M Vandenhole, B De Beer, S De Rouck… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The role, magnitude, and molecular nature of trans-driven expression variation underlying
the upregulation of detoxification genes in pesticide resistant arthropod populations has …

Haematopoietic stem and progenitor cell heterogeneity is inherited from the embryonic endothelium

JJ Ghersi, G Baldissera, J Hintzen, SA Luff… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Definitive haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) generate erythroid, lymphoid
and myeloid lineages. HSPCs are produced in the embryo via transdifferentiation of …

[HTML][HTML] Bovine blastocyst-like structures derived from stem cell cultures

CA Pinzón-Arteaga, Y Wang, Y Wei, AER Orsi, L Li… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Understanding the mechanisms of blastocyst formation and implantation is critical for
improving farm animal reproduction but is hampered by a limited supply of embryos. Here …