Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

Health & Medicine

In Silico Targeting of Calpain-5 in Autosomal Dominant Neovascular Inflammatory Vitreoretinopathy (ADNIV) with Peptides and Natural Products

Autosomal dominant neovascular inflammatory vitreoretinopathy (ADNIV) is a rare retinal disease caused by gain-of-function mutations in the non-classical calcium-activated cysteine protease calpain-5 (CAPN5). These mutations lower the calcium threshold for catalytic-triad alignment with downstream effects including excessive proteolysis and retinal degeneration, making CAPN5 a therapeutic target.…

We haven't written up this one. bioRxiv has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at biorxiv.org →

More in Health & Medicine

The sucker’s dilemma

In a world filled with scams, being wary makes perfect sense. But health, trust and decision-making can suffer when the fear of getting conned goes too far.

More from Tuesday 11 August →