Drug Discovery News
October 2021
A neurosteroid hope for postpartum depression
Decoding cell behavior and disease with AI and single-cell transcriptomics
Chagas disease is an invisible heartache that preventative screening can heal
Harnessing cells’ own RNA editing tools for new therapeutics
Targeting gut bacteria to treat autism
September 2021
A live parasite vaccine for deadly leishmaniasis
Prescribing art therapy for Parkinson’s disease
CAR T cell therapy gives glioblastoma patients hope
July/August 2021
Skin cells use epigenetics to tolerate microorganisms
Keolu Fox revises historical narratives with genome data
Depleting skin immune cells helps treat cutaneous lupus
A shark antibody shuttles neuroprotection across the blood brain barrier
Infographic: Hitchhiking Microbes
Keeping astronauts healthy in space
Space alters an astronaut’s immune system
June 2021
A small molecule inhibitor blocks breast cancer’s back up plan
Activating a brain circuit relieves pain in male mice, but not in female mice
Can a probiotic prevent type 1 diabetes in children?
May 2021
Light and sound stimulation improves early Alzheimer’s disease symptoms
You Have Your Mother’s Eyes — and Cells
Killing Cancer Cells by Stressing Them Out
Hibernating animals may help cure complex human disease
Platelets Take Down Bacteria with the Help of a Trusty Anti-Viral
A New Tool called Rewind Finds Rare Cells Primed for Drug Resistance
Scientists Repurposed an Orphan Drug to Kill Blood-Feeding Tsetse Flies
Discover Magazine
How Science Is Saving Van Gogh’s Flowers Before They Fade Away (May 2021)
Quanta Magazine
A New Algorithm for Graph Crossings, Hiding in Plain Sight (September 2020)
The Los Angeles Times
Column One: Doctor-poets search for the right words to help patients heal
Ocean robots take the pulse of our planet by measuring microbes
Bones pulled from the La Brea Tar Pits show the perils of being a picky eater
Everything you need to know about toxic algae blooms
Gender gap in STEM fields could be due to girls’ reading skills, not math ability
210,000-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe or Asia
Trees could reduce carbon in the atmosphere to levels not seen in nearly 100 years
Archaeologists have a new way to unlock the secrets of ancient burned bones
Marathon runners get a boost from the bacteria in their guts
Experiment with ‘lost’ wallets reveals that people are surprisingly honest
EpiBeat
Frog Eyes Might Be the Key to Retinal Regeneration
The Beneficial Effect of Exercise on DNA Methylation
Up All Night and Asleep All Day: How Jet Lag Impacts Epigenetics
How a C. elegans Histone Methyltransferase Targets Regions to Silence
Hidden in Plain Sight: How Altering Heterochromatin Disguises Malaria from its Host
An Epigenetic Link to Recurrent Miscarriage
MicroRNAs Team Up to Take Down Brain Cancer
Losing Heterochromatin to Determine Cell Fate
Ripening Oranges with Epigenetics
Low HDAC3 Expression Leads to Endometriosis-Linked Infertility
Untangling the Role of Tau on the Epigenome of Alzheimer’s Brains
Cellular Antivirus: How Foreign DNA is Hushed
Implicating Methylation Variability in Depression
A Flash-Frozen View of Condensing Chromatin
HDAC Inhibitor Stops HPV in its Tracks
Balancing Bones: Epigenetic Regulators Are Important for Maintaining Bone Homeostasis
Mapping the Chromatin Landscape of Cancers
A Role for Histones in Paternal Epigenetic Inheritance
A Simultaneous Picture of Gene Expression and Chromatin Landscape in Single Cells
Aging Promotes Tissue Regeneration and Less Scar Formation
Signal to Noise Magazine
A Burst of Blue Thousands of Years in the Making
Constellations: A Play of Multiple Universes and Infinite Possibilities
Tales of Trailblazing Women in Science
Calling a Microscopic Quorum: How Fungi Communicate
Of Spies and Space-Time: The Science Behind Marvel’s Agent Carter
Stabilizing the Blood-Brain Barrier Against Invading Parasites
When Viruses and Carbon Nanotubes Collide: A Novel Approach to Cancer Imaging
