Joseph Garner, an assistant professor of animal sciences, helped develop a test that found goldfish do feel pain, and their reactions to it are much like that…
Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate…
The study, “Mutations in Smooth Muscle Alpha-Actin (ACTA2) Cause Early Onset Coronary Artery Disease, Stroke and Moyamoya Disease, Along with Thoracic Aortic…
An Iowa State University researcher has figured out a mechanism involved in marking where these instructions are located in a cell's DNA.In the current edition…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have now developed a new universally employable sample preparation method that combines the advantages…
Ben W. Strowbridge, Ph.D, associate professor of Neuroscience and Physiology/Biophysics, and Yuan Gao, a Ph.D. student in the neurosciences program at Case…
The tenacity of these glues on wet surfaces is difficult to match with artificial adhesives.Following up on their original research identifying the key…
“We have generated a draft DNA sequence and initial assembly of the date palm using the most advanced technology,” says Joel Malek, director of the Genomics…
In previous work, Dr. Daniel Lacorazza, assistant professor of pathology at BCM, along with his research team, identified a transcription factor, ELF4, which…
The DNA is being damaged continuously: It is affected by solar UV radiation just as by toxic substances from the environment. However, defects also occur…
These man-made molecules also were effective against the abnormal protein that causes Machado-Joseph disease, a neurological condition similar to Huntington’s.The work has been done only in cultured cells, and it will take years before the effectiveness of this process can be tested in patients, the researchers cautioned….
“The new transposon system is able to introduce genes into cells and to stably insert them into the cell's genome at an unprecedented efficiency,” Dr. Lajos…
Many molecular materials, be they hydrogen for fuel cells or drugs, can be stored in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). This would even be possible for metal…
In studying the mystery of these biological phenomena, Asako Sugimoto, Team Leader of the Laboratory for Developmental Genomics in the Center for Developmental…
The world will reportedly face a food crisis as a result of the population explosion and other factors in the near future. To increase crop yields is a major…
In the thousands of years since the soybean was first cultivated, it has only become more useful and important, providing nutrition for billions of humans and…