The new vaccine is unique in its origin — it was “manufactured” in a tobacco plant using an engineered plant virus. Researchers are enlisting plants in the…
Cancer remains a deadly threat despite the best efforts of science. New hopes were raised a few years ago with the discovery that the uncontrolled growth of…
A team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have pinpointed two groups of neurons in fruit fly brains that have the ability to…
Drugs that target the epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR, have been used for a number of cancers. But these drugs called EGFR inhibitors, such as…
Tao Weitao, a researcher in the College of Sciences' Department of Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio is making great strides in a project that…
Interactions between proteins are fundamental to many biological processes, including some less-than-desirable ones like infections and tumor growth. For…
This test, which detects both the presence and the quantity of certain DNA changes, could alert people who are at risk of developing the disease and could tell…
The findings being reported in the Aug. 14 issue of Molecular Cell help explain the promising results being seen in clinical trials of compounds that force…
The cross disciplinary research, published in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions, demonstrates a technique where…
This has been demonstrated by research carried out at TU Delft's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience. The results will be appearing this week in the online edition…
Researchers in China have discovered the first protein-based toxin in an amphibian –a 60 amino acid neurotoxin found in the skin of a Chinese tree frog. This…
Possible explanation for the necrosis of dopaminergic cells Neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine are the cerebral cells that most commonly…
The study, appearing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used microarray analysis to measure changes in gene expression in the…
What may prove to be new species of salamander is being investigated in the George Washington National Forest by Washington and Lee University professor and…
This was not always the case. Achieving the gliding ability required the evolution of a unique arrangement of the legs, with the mid-legs greatl y elongated….
The data show that fleas collected from around the globe continue to be as highly susceptible to imidacloprid today as they were when the monitoring commenced….
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