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Microinjection, gene knockdown, and CRISPR-mediated gene knock-in in the hard coral, Astrangia poculata.

Cnidarians have become valuable models for understanding many aspects of developmental biology including the evolution of body plan diversity, novel cell type specification, and regeneration. Most of our understanding of gene function during early development in cnidarians comes from a small number of experimental systems including Hydra and the sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis. Few molecular tools have been developed for use in hard corals, limiting our understanding of this diverse and ecologically important clade. Here, we report the development of a suite of tools for manipulating and a

Application progress and biosafety challenges of gene editing and synthetic biotechnology in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases.

Global infectious disease prevention faces escalating challenges due to the continual emergence of novel pathogens and rapid viral mutations. Synthetic biology has revolutionized this field by enabling precise diagnostics, innovative vaccine platforms, and targeted therapeutics, yet it simultaneously raises concerns regarding dual-use potential, biosafety, and ethical governance. This systematic review (2015-2025, PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus) focuses on CRISPR-based diagnostics, synthetic vaccines, and engineered probiotics. CRISPR/Cas systems such as DETECTR (Cas12a) and SHERLOCK (Cas13a)

Recent Advances in Ovarian Cancer: Therapeutic Strategies, Potential Biomarkers, and Technological Improvements.

Aggressive and recurrent gynecological cancers are associated with worse prognosis and a lack of effective therapeutic response. Ovarian cancer (OC) patients are often diagnosed in advanced stages, when drug resistance, angiogenesis, relapse, and metastasis impact survival outcomes. Currently, surgical debulking, radiotherapy, and/or chemotherapy remain the mainstream treatment modalities; however, patients suffer unwanted side effects and drug resistance in the absence of targeted therapies. Hence, it is urgent to decipher the complex disease biology and identify potential biomarkers, which c

Using Cytokine Reporter Mice to Visualize Type-2 Immunity In Vivo.

Type-2 cytokine production plays a critical role in the context of type 2 immunity and allergic inflammation. Interleukin-4 (IL-4) and IL-13 are key modulators of the cell-mediated and humoral immune hallmarks most commonly associated with type-2 immune responses. However, production of these cytokines by lymphocytes and their tissue localization has been difficult to detect in vivo. As such, the field has relied heavily on ex vivo restimulation and in vitro differentiation assays to understand type-2 cytokine biology. Although these studies have greatly informed our understanding of type-2 cy

Network analysis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA): a new horizon for the understanding of disease pathogenesis and therapeutic target identification.

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a clinically diverse and genetically complex autoimmune disease. Currently, there is very limited und … protracted undertaking. Integrative genomics aims to bridge the gap between genotype and phenotype.Systems biology, principally through network analysis, is emerging as a valuable way to identify biological pathways of relevance to complex genetic diseases. This review aims to highlight recent findings in systems biology related to JIA in an attempt to assist in …

Developmental mechanisms underlying variation in craniofacial disease and evolution.

Craniofacial disease phenotypes exhibit significant variation in penetrance and severity. Although many genetic contributions to phenotypic variation have been identified, genotype-phenotype correlations remain imprecise. Recent work in evolutionary developmental biology has exposed intriguing developmental mechanisms that potentially explain incongruities in genotype-phenotype relationships. This review focuses on two observations from work in comparative and experimental animal model systems that highlight how development structures variation. First, multiple genetic inputs converge on relat

Novel regulators and drug targets of cardiac hypertrophy.

Cardiac hypertrophy is classically considered as an adaptive and compensatory response enabling cardiomyocytes to increase their work output … atterns of cardiac substrate utilization in cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure. The use of novel systems biology techniques such as metabolomics may therefore in future provide insights into the metabolic processes and cardiovascular biology related to cardiac hypertrophy and also extend the ability to discover circulating biomarkers for cardiovascular disease …

A physiologically based mathematical model of integrated calcium homeostasis and bone remodeling.

Bone biology is physiologically complex and intimately linked to calcium homeostasis. The literature provides a wealth of qualitative and/or quantitative descriptions of cellular mechanisms, bone dynamics, associated organ dynamics, related disease sequela, and results of therapeutic interventions. We present a physiologically based mathematical model of integrated calcium homeostasis and bone biology constructed from literature data. The model includes relevant cellular aspects with major controlling mechanisms for bone remodeling and calcium homeostasis and appropriately describes a broad ra

[Malaria research in the post-genomic era].

Genomic sequence determination of Plasmodium falciparum and other species of the genus, as well as that of Anopheles gambiae, and human, rat and mouse genome sequencing have completely changed the landscape of fundamental research about malaria. These data should urgently be exploited, in order to develop new tools to combat the disease: new drugs, fine dissection of the cascade of events following infection of the various vector species and vertebrate host, analysis of the complex interaction leading to the pathology or, inversely, contributing to sustained protection. Powerful population bio

Convergence of cryo-electron microscopy and artificial intelligence in integrative structural biology: A critical review of advances, synergies, and implications for molecular biophysics and drug discovery.

Structural biology has entered a period of rapid methodological change defined by the convergence of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven structure prediction. Prior reviews have generally addressed cryo-EM instrumentation or AI structure prediction individually, or their combination primarily from a structural biology or drug discovery perspective; a microscopy-centred synthesis tracing this convergence from detector physics and image-processing workflows through validation standards to in situ cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET), while situating AI tools

Synthetic biology approaches for improving the specificity and efficacy of cancer immunotherapy.

Immunotherapy has shown robust efficacy in treating a broad spectrum of hematological and solid cancers. Despite the transformative impact of immunotherapy on cancer treatment, several outstanding challenges remain. These challenges include on-target off-tumor toxicity, systemic toxicity, and the complexity of achieving potent and sustainable therapeutic efficacy. Synthetic biology has emerged as a promising approach to overcome these obstacles, offering innovative tools for engineering living cells with customized functions. This review provides an overview of the current landscape and future

COVID-19 and Lung Cancer Interactions: A Literature Review.

This review aims to discuss the apparent reduction in pulmonary cancer incidence in the general population during and shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic from a biological and pathophysiological mechanistic point of view. While the epidemiological evidence points to a disruption in the early- and mid-stage diagnostic process, which causes a shift to late-stage lung cancer discovery with no impact on its actual prevalence, an alternative hypothesis based on the intersection of viral and cancer biology could have a real effect on lung carcinogenesis as an independent phenomenon. By weaving toget

Multi-omics insights into host-viral response and pathogenesis in Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever viruses for novel therapeutic target.

The pathogenesis and host-viral interactions of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever orthonairovirus (CCHFV) are convoluted and not well evaluated. Application of the multi-omics system biology approaches, including biological network analysis in elucidating the complex host-viral response, interrogates the viral pathogenesis. The present study aimed to fingerprint the system-level alterations during acute CCHFV-infection and the cellular immune responses during productive CCHFV-replication in vitro. We used system-wide network-based system biology analysis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells

Activins in reproductive biology and beyond.

BACKGROUND: Activins are members of the pleiotrophic family of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) superfamily of cytokines, initially isolated for their capacity to induce the release of FSH from pituitary extracts. Subsequent research has demonstrated that activins are involved in multiple biological functions including the control of inflammation, fibrosis, developmental biology and tumourigenesis. This review summarizes the current knowledge on the roles of activin in reproductive and developmental biology. It also discusses interesting advances in the field of modulating the bioac

Cell free systems for production of chemicals.

Modern technologies have also prompted biotechnologists to change their focus towards in vitro methods whereby biochemicals and biomaterials are prepared using cell-free conditions. Nevertheless, with many obstacles, the evolution of cell-free systems (CFSs) is thought to create additional opportunities in the creation of biologically-relevant molecules and materials. Cell-free biosynthesis serves to address significant discrepancies in traditional whole cell-based metabolic processes, and has a number of benefits, including the reduced structural and functional complexity, and the possibility

Complex impact of hypomagnetic fields on yeast growth, volatile components emissions, and cell surface morphology.

UNLABELLED: The geomagnetic field is a persistent environmental condition under which biological systems have evolved. Its absence creates hypomagnetic conditions, potentially disrupting this equilibrium. This study examined the effects of hypomagnetic fields on Saccharomyces cerevisiae growth and metabolism across three culture volumes (10, 75, and 250 mL). Growth inhibition was most pronounced in the smallest volume, with up to 42% reduction in 10-mL cultures, decreasing to 24% in 75 mL, and none in 250-mL cultures. Budding analysis showed significant early inhibition in 10-mL cultures at 2,

Навигатор биомаркеров человека.

Биомаркеры играют ключевую роль в современных исследованиях медицины, особенно в ранней диагностике заболеваний и персонализированном лечении. Несмотря на то, что предыдущие исследования систематически обзоры маркеров в различных областях заболеваний, интегрированная система, которая связывает основные физиологические системы, охватывает множество органов и охватывает широкий спектр заболеваний, все еще отсутствует. В контексте современных вызовов здоровья, характеризующихся высокой распространенностью хронических заболеваний и широкими сопутствующими заболеваниями, создание панорамной системы

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Biomarkers play a pivotal role in contemporary medical research, particularly in the early diagnosis of diseases and personalized treatment. … wledge enumeration' to a more integrated, systems-level approach. This provides new perspectives in systems biology for understanding the shared pathological foundations of comorbidities. Furthermore, it provides a theoretical basis for a reorientation in medicine, from a focus on 'treating existing diseases' to 'preventive interventions' and from 'single-disease …

Leveraging Scalable Non-Mammalian Systems for Large-Scale Studies of Autism Risk Gene Function.

There are over 100 large-effect genes strongly associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet advancing from risk genes to the discovery of common biological pathways and pharmacological targets remains a central challenge. Scalable non-mammalian systems, including Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm), Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly), Danio rerio (zebrafish), and Xenopus tropicalis (frog), provide critical advantages for the functional analysis of ASD genes due to their amenability to high-throughput screens, relatively low cost, and ease of genetic manipulation. Recent studies have lev

The equine ascarids: resuscitating historic model organisms for modern purposes.

The equine ascarids, Parascaris spp., are important nematode parasites of juvenile horses and were historically model organisms in the field of cell biology, leading to many important discoveries, and are used for the study of chromatin diminution. In veterinary parasitology, Parascaris spp. are important not only because they can cause clinical disease in young horses but also because they are the only ascarid parasites to have developed widespread anthelmintic resistance. Despite this, much of the general biology and mechanisms of anthelmintic resistance are poorly understood. This review co

Current Advances and Future Perspectives of Liver-on-a-Chip Platforms Incorporating Dynamic Fluid Flow.

The liver is a vital organ responsible for a broad range of metabolic functions, including glucose and lipid metabolism, detoxification, and protein synthesis. Its structural complexity, characterized by hexagonal hepatic lobules composed of diverse parenchymal and non-parenchymal cell types, supports its broad spectrum of physiological activities. Traditional in vitro liver models have contributed significantly to our understanding of hepatic biology and the development of therapies for liver-related diseases. However, static culture systems fail to replicate the dynamic in vivo microenvironm