The LSUHSC research team showed that Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) helps preserve the function of a key spontaneous reflex involved in blood pressure…
The problem is that Gokhale's compound will not work in humans. Not willing to set aside seven years of work, he has been knocking on the doors of…
Now, with the help of a squid that uses a luminescent bacterium to create a predator-fooling light organ and a fish that uses a different strain of the same…
He used it to solve the structure of a newly synthesized form of pure boron that displays some unusual physical properties and brings a surprise: it is…
A computational model developed by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies now suggests that newborn brain cells—generated by the thousands…
Anyone who has ever battled a stuck zipper knows it's a good idea to see what's stuck, where and how badly — and then to pull hard.A Cornell research team's…
During its career, the potentially fatal hepatitis C virus has banked its success on a rather unusual strategy: its limitations.Its inability to infect animals…
More than half of all human proteins, as well as many important pharmaceutical agents, are glycoproteins, which means that they contain sugar components. In…
In the study, published online Jan. 8 in Science Express, researchers reported that Stat3, a protein previously known to control the activity of genes by…
A collaboration between a team of scientists in Cambridge and Oxford, UK and Sydney, Australia has identified an increase in the chemical serotonin in specific…
According to the study, published in the new issue of the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, climate change and evolutionary change could…
The study published online in Europe’s leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction [1] today (Thursday 29 January) found that women who had higher…
Research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Critical Care links the TT genotype of the IL-18 9545 T/G polymorphism with a larger…
Ordinary cells have the ability to replace lost organs in plants—a function previously thought to be limited to stem cells—researchers at New York University's…
The genome data will aid scientists in optimizing sorghum and other crops not only for food and fodder use, but also for biofuels production. The comparative…
Cancer is a genetic disease. It occurs when changes take place in the genes that regulate cell division, cell growth, cell death, cell signalling and blood…
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