This is based on the analysis of several substances from the vitreous humour of the eye of cadavers, according to an article published in the journal entitled…
This happens in the same way – and with the same effects – as when cells receive a message from a hormone. This finding can teach us more about how food…
The power of 'genetic microscopes' has increased because the methods are in place to study many thousands of DNA samples. This study, involving over 20,000…
Cohorts are followed throughout their lives, gathering lifelong information about their health: these data will help researchers to dissect the complex causes…
Alzheimer’s disease causes nerve cells in the brain to die, resulting in problems with memory, speech and understanding. Little is known about how the nerve…
Sodium valproate – which is marketed as the anti-seizure drug Epilim – has been shown by scientists at the University of Leeds to reactivate the body’s own…
To help scientists working in this area two leading funding bodies in the UK and US have joined forces to fund a programme of collaborative transatlantic…
The metal, osmium, is closely related to platinum, which is widely used to treat cancers in the form of the drug cisplatin. Most famously, the cyclist Lance…
To fight the driving force of the tumor – the tumor stem cells – scientists have been trying to initiate apoptosis in these cells. However, Dr. Ana…
To get to the root of this complicated relationship, researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies for the very first time established a human…
Groove-like tracks on the ocean floor made by giant deep-sea single-celled organisms could lead to new insights into the evolutionary origin of animals. Biologist Mikhail “Misha” Matz from The University of Texas at Austin and his colleagues, including Dr. Tamara Frank with the Center for Ocean Exploration and Deep-Sea Research, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) at Florida Atlantic University, recently discovered grape-sized protists and their complex tracks on the ocean floor near the Bahamas. This is the first time a single-celled organism has been shown to make such animal-like traces. The team’s discovery was recently published online in Current Biology and will also appear in the journal’s December 9 print issue. …
Yet the expeditions, which included surveys at unexplored depths, have revealed disturbing declines in sea-life populations and evidence that human impacts…
Research published today in BioMed Central’s open access journal Genome Biology shows how a list of SNPs in genes that are repeatedly implicated across many…
The findings, available online and in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Immunology, have potential application in the development of more effective vaccines…
Tufts doctoral student Sarah Sundelacruz, Professor of Biology Michael Levin, and Chair of Biomedical Engineering David L. Kaplan (corresponding author)…
The study, released today in Nature Cell Biology, is the first to specifically pinpoint a protein responsible for promoting cell repair. Led by Jianjie Ma,…
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