Cover Stories
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AS Mystery and Potential Cure Uncovered
Ankylosing Spondylitis, commonly referred to as “AS”, is a kind of disease that usually started with the inflammation in the pelvic area, extending to the vertebral column and eventually leading to “bamboo spine”, when patients cannot keep their backs straight up.
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RNA Editing: A New Angle to Conduct Gene Therapy
This is the first time to explore the association between RNA editing activities and the damaging effect of genetic mutations at a population scale.
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Naa10p Depletion Burns Fat
Diet-induced obesity (DIO) is a serious health, society and economy issue worldwide. Obesity greatly increases the risk of many life-threatening diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancers.
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Exosome Proved a Rebel in Dengue Invasion
As the heat rises in the summer, so does the threat of Dengue fever outbreak. Despite of intensive research, there is no effective pharmaceutical treatments for Dengue fever.
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Glycans Promising To Fix Damaged Spinal Axons
An accident caused the spinal injury, and a person was sentenced to life time on wheels - such traumatic stories are not new, and all those paralyzed are still waiting for new medical breakthroughs.
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Hassle Free Influenza Vaccine Close to Reality
For almost a decade, the research team’s searching for an ideal influenza vaccine has been one of the most important research aims in GRC.
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Circulating Cancer Detection Tool Validated Clustering Key to Metastasis of Head & Neck Cancers
Cancer cell migration to other organs is a crucial factor leading to cancer metastasis and poor prognosis. It is a hot issue to be resolved.
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Hierachical and Programmable One-Pot Method Brings Oligosaccharide Synthesis to a Whole New Level
One of the most important classes of biomolecules, oligosaccharides are involved in a variety of biochemical processes, including intercellular recognition, cell differentiation, cancer proliferation, inflammation and immune responses.
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How Can You Mend a Broken Cell: Let Experimental Evolution Show You How
When an essential car part dies, we expect the car dies as well. Same must also be true for the cell, so we think, because cell is akin to a hugely complicated “car”, in which many micro-machines work together under the hood to produce life.
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Aldolase - Metabolic Enzymes with Great Potentials for Cancer Theraputics
The metabolic network plays an important role in homeostasis, which is a nature’s way of keeping everything balanced inside our bodies. In recent years, it has been discovered that within cancerous cells, the metabolic network is somehow tweaked.