In einer institutsübergreifenden Kooperation ist es Wissenschaftlern der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz gelungen, weitere Einsichten in die körpereigenen…
In a study published online on Feb. 12 in Circulation Research, a journal of the American Heart Association, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health…
Ungar will be part of a seminar that includes a panel of experts addressing different aspects of the evolution of human diet. The seminar is part of the…
Taking advantage of this remarkable evolutionary conservation, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies transformed the fruit fly into a…
The strategy promises to clarify the longstanding mystery of the role played by vast stretches of DNA sequence that do not code for the functional…
Their findings, published online January 9 in Experimental Diabetes Research, could provide a potential new target for therapy.Pamela Itkin-Ansari, Ph.D.,…
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) have found that an enzyme associated with the synthesis of fat in the body is also an…
A team of scientists, speaking today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, called for new awareness of the…
“We basically design molecules that actually go into the cell and do an analysis of the cellular state before delivering the therapeutic punch,” said Christina…
“We wanted to get to a strategy to predict what a face will look like,” said Mark D. Shriver, associate professor of biological anthropology. “We want to…
Thus the researchers uncovered a surprising feature of how DNA strand breaks can be handled. Their unexpected findings have important implications for the…
Researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a panel of small molecules, or metabolites, that appear to indicate…
Segments of DNA in its genome began to form duplicate copies at a greater rate than in the past, creating an instability that persists in the genome of modern…
“Analysing so many strains has helped us to bring the small branches of Darwin's 'Tree of Life' into focus,” said Dr Steve James of the National Collection of…
In the article, Robert Weiss from University College London describes how he was struck by inspiration while pondering the question of why lice would separate…
A new species of fruit fly has evolved after changing its mating behavior to favor laying eggs on apples instead of its characteristic hawthorn tree fruit…