All of life is founded on the interactions of millions of proteins. These are the building blocks for cells and form the molecular mechanisms of life. The…
Now, researchers at the Salk Institute provide the first detailed map of the human epigenome, the layer of genetic control beyond the regulation inherent in…
The ID system lies in the roots and the chemical cues they secrete.The finding not only sheds light on the intriguing sensing system in plants, but also may…
The Committee met to review their final draft report on gene patents and licensing practices, and recommended that the administration promote exemptions from…
Language is a uniquely human ability that evolved at some point in the six million years since humans and chimpanzees diverged. Even without being taught or…
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) have charted the extreme genetic differences that occur over…
Young Ho Kim and colleagues point out that osteoporosis is a global health problem, affecting up to 6 million women and 2 million men in the United States…
In fact, they produced bugs so irresistible that normal male fruit flies attempted to mate with pheromone-free males and even females from a different…
Like an unusually forceful career counselor, the Id3 protein decides the fate of a given white blood cell precursor, according to researchers at Fox Chase…
Their work was published this week in Cell. “Many anti-HIV drugs are designed to stop the process of DNA replication,” says Dr. Whitney Yin, assistant…
The nano-scale test tube is so small that a high-power electron microscope was required to see the experiment.Made from a thin shell of carbon, the test tube…
The study is reported in Issue 18, Volume 54 (September 2009) of the Chinese Science Bulletin as one of the papers in a special issue about Biomedical…
Researchers will present their updated findings Wednesday at the 95th annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons. The research project, which…
The paper, entitled “A little bit of lithium does a lot for hydrogen,” presents the first prediction of stable LiHn hydrides (LiH2, LiH6, LiH8). These…
The discovery could contribute to better understanding of human diseases that affect the retina, including age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause…
L-form bacteria, which were first discovered in the 1930s, are morphological variants of classical bacteria that lack a cell wall. Under specialized growth…
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