February 2023 Volume 19, Issue 2

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Volume 19, Issue 2 | February 2023

February 2023

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Metabolic Disease

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Sequencing 100,000 genomes to revolutionize Nigerian genomics

With diseases like cancer and kidney disease on the rise in Africa, Segun Fatumo and his team are sequencing the genomes of 100,000 Nigerians to understand why.
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The ticking clock of metabolic disease

Mitchell Lazar studies the transcription factors linking circadian disruption to obesity and diabetes.
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Drops and drugs for diabetic vision loss

Eye injections are the only way to treat diabetic retinopathy, but many refuse to get them. Now, eye drops and pills are on their way.

Editors Insight

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Making a mess of the tidy narrative

Accuracy doesn’t only apply to isolated facts, but to the overall picture they paint.  

Editor's Focus

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What now for the amyloid hypothesis?

The Alzheimer's disease research field has been beset by failed clinical trials and fraud. But researchers remain hopeful that a better understanding of the disease’s broader picture will lead to treatments.
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From dye to base editing, early aging may soon have a cure

Kan Cao studies the rare aging disorder progeria to find a cure, and she’s ready to solve the mysteries of healthy human aging along the way.

Aging

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A new strategy for fighting age-related disease

Drugs that target senescent cells could one day treat frailty, Alzheimer’s disease, or cancer.

Vaccines

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Tiny needles make a big impact for vaccine delivery

Microarray, or microneedle, patches could boost vaccine access in low- and middle-income countries.
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Origami vaccines fold up to fight cancer

As self-assembling structures, DNA and RNA origami vaccines hold vaccine components in precise numbers and arrangements to help the immune system attack tumors.

Gene Therapy

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Gene editing: DNA versus RNA

Researchers correcting the genetic causes of disease at the DNA or RNA level make their cases.
The protein RNA polymerase binds to DNA and creates an RNA transcript from it.

Editing the cell’s transcripts

For cases where gene editing simply won’t work, biochemist Aseem Ansari is working on a new idea: changing how cells regulate genes.
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Discovering deeper insights into malaria research

Malaria continues to drive urgent research worldwide, with new therapies and tools emerging to combat the parasite’s complex lifecycle and global burden.
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