Plants draw the necessary nutrients from the soil through their roots. Because they do this best with a well-branched root system, plants must form offshoots…
In this information age, increased storage capacity is a central challenge for science and technology. A team of German and Italian researchers has pursued…
Researchers say the breakthrough could provide more efficient ways of targeting diseases such as leukemia, and help in the potential development of vaccines…
After starting out in our primate ancestors 65 million years ago, one type of repetitive DNA called an Alu retrotransposon now takes up 10 percent of our…
They say it may be possible to exploit the newly found trigger as a target for designer drugs that would treat cancer by forcing malignant cells to commit…
Two teams of scientists from Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a new self-assembling…
Such cells control aggressive immune cells and, thus, unwanted immune reactions by the graft can be avoided. However, to date, there were no adequate…
The work follows a study carried out by Oregon Health and Science University, which suggested a link between a gene mutation in mice and tolerance to alcohol….
Mathematical modelling is a critical component of systems biology studies of biochemical networks. However, the use and applicability of computational methods…
Because of the power of molecular genetics research in animals and the maturation of animal models, the path to identifying genes involved in particular types…
Scientists in Cambridge, UK, using a mouse with a human chromosome in its cells, discovered that gene expression, contrary to what was previously thought, is…
Scientists have known for two decades or more that lymphocytes can break their own DNA in this fashion, creating splits in both of the two strands. However,…
The conventional wisdom was that the job of turning proteins on and off — and thus determining their actions — fell to phosphates, in a common and…
Even though the Cretaceous Period ended more than 65 million years ago, clues remain about how the ocean water circulated at that time. Measuring a chemical…
“The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms…the exploitation of one part of society by the other”. – Karl Marx and…
Now, in a collaborative study, UCLA and Dutch researchers have identified three new candidate genes for schizophrenia that may contribute to a better…
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