A Columbia University Medical Center research team has discovered a new gene involved in determining hair texture in humans. The team's genetic analysis…
The finding is a step toward development of drug therapies that could target bacterial resistance at its cellular source. Before researchers can design such…
Found in nature only on the island nation of Madagascar, off Africa’s southeastern coast, lemurs and their close relatives the lorises represent the sister…
Allan P. Boyle et al published in the January 2008 issue of Cell some remarkable work on “High-Resolution Mapping and Characterization of Open Chromatin across…
Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment…
“VLPs are one of the most promising candidates for protecting humans against Ebola and Marburg virus infections,” says Dr. Kelly Warfield, a researcher at…
Despite the significance of taste to both human gratification and survival, a basic understanding of this primal sense is still unfolding. Taste provides both…
A protein that stimulates blood vessel growth worsens ovarian cancer, but its production can be stifled by a tiny bit of RNA wrapped in a fatty nanoparticle, a…
“Bioenergy is one of the hottest environmental and energy issues in the world today,” says Rolf Annerberg, director general of the Swedish Research Council…
Sylvia Cremer is from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the University of Regensburg in Germany. Working with colleagues from these institutes and…
Mammalian cells secrete a plethora of different proteins such as antibodies, hormones and blood proteins that fulfill their biological function outside the…
The researchers, University of Illinois entomology professor Charles Whitfield and postdoctoral researcher Amro Zayed, analyzed specific markers of change in…
A new study reveals in atomic detail how a blood protein that is a fundamental building block of blood clots gives them their life-enhancing, or…
A new chemical toolkit provides the first clinical explanation for these and other physiological mysteries. The answers, it turns out, all boil down to…
Appearing online ahead of print in Nature Medicine, the researchers report the identification of a small protein that specifically recognizes tumors responding…
“We knew that Notch is important in patterning the skeleton,” said Dr. Brendan Lee, professor of molecular and human genetics and pediatrics at BCM and a…
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