The UB research provides critical insight into why catalysis is so complex and may help pave the way for improving the design of synthetic catalysts.”The more…
The psychologist who led the research, which is published today in the journal ‘Current Biology’, believes stereotypes could be used to help improve how…
E. coli bacteria are found naturally in large quantities in our intestines. These bacteria do not normally cause disease, but there are several strains that…
Ms Melissa Thys, from the Department of Medical Genetics, University of Antwerp, Belgium, said that this finding may be a step towards new treatments for…
Genes account for only 2.5 percent of DNA in the human genetic blueprint, yet diseases can result not only from mutant genes, but from mutations of other DNA…
“We have shown that there is a fundamental adaptive mechanism linking a species' locomotion with the sensory systems that process information about its…
Results of the study, led by researchers at Oregon State University, will be published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences….
In their report in Nature Genetics, published online on Sunday 17 June 2007, the researchers compared the genomes of L. infantum and L. braziliensis, which…
What is the role of inflammation in cancer? Which molecular and cell mechanisms promote inflammation? How do antiinflammatory agents work and which molecules…
The study demonstrates that muscle weakness experienced by persons with a regulatory protein tropomyosin mutation is directly related to a mechanism by which…
Knowing about oscillation properties of genes involved in metabolism is essential for understanding how genes interact with and regulate health and disease….
A new Mayo Clinic study, published June 15 in PLoS Genetics, provides strong evidence that the joint effects of common DNA variations in several genes that…
The technique is based on identification of the antibody level in saliva and blood. For invention of this technique, Professor Marina Myagkova was recognized…
Scientists at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital (Canada), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Germany), and Massachusetts…
Type 2 diabetes is classified as a metabolic disorder, but a growing number of researchers are beginning to think of it also as a disease of the innate immune…
The link between calorie restriction and a longer, healthier life may lie in the head, not in the gut, MIT biologists report.Dietary restriction extends…