New research published today in the Journal of Cell Biology illuminates the mechanical factors that play a critical role in the differentiation and function of…
Dr. William Brownell, professor of otolaryngology at BCM and his colleagues, said that the amount of cholesterol in the outer hair cell membrane found in the…
Can a tiny winged insect’s salivary glands really tell us about processes relevant to human disease” Yes, according to a new study by researchers at the…
This new, biologically inspired algorithm for analyzing the brain at work allows scientists to explain why when we notice a scent, the brain can quickly sort…
“The study identifies very good therapeutic targets, and what needs to be done is identify better candidate drugs,” said Lionel Ivashkiv, M.D., director of…
Scientists had previously identified the genes responsible for synthesizing fat within cells. But the genes governing the next step–packaging the fat inside a…
Plastics are becoming more and more important and are an indispensable part of modern life. Scientists are thus interested in clearing up the details of…
To try to identify pathological genes that are involved in ALS, the research group at Umeå University, in collaboration with Dutch and Belgian scientists,…
Unfortunately, a woman’s organism produces only 4-5 grams of lactoferrin per liter of milk, besides, donor milk can be infected by HIV or other dangerous…
The BIOCHIP-IMB company was set up at the Institute for production of domestic microchips. During the press-tour on November 15, 2007, the researchers told…
Sepsis remains the main death cause in clinics of intensive therapy despite many years of scientists’ continuous research. In the USA and European countries,…
Without these critical molecules — known as TAM receptor tyrosine kinases — patrolling immune cells on the look-out for danger would never cease activating the…
Their survival might explain why tumors frequently recur or spread after treatment. Increasingly, researchers view the challenge of getting rid of these bad…
A pioneering study of wild chimpanzees has found that these close human relatives do not routinely experience menopause, rebutting previous studies of captive…
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide a better understanding of the mechanism that viruses use to conquer…
By varying the identity and spacing of the tethered molecules, researchers can make the technique applicable to a wide range of bait molecules including drugs,…
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