Stem rust of wheat was responsible for massive epidemics on wheat during the early 20th Century in North America. In the mid-1950s, wheat breeders developed…
> Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found an absolute biochemical distinction between the sporadic and hereditary variants…
Their work appears online May 6 in advance of publication in the journal Nature Methods.Fruit flies are well suited for chromosome studies because some of…
The likelihood of developing bipolar disorder depends in part on the combined, small effects of variations in many different genes in the brain, none of which…
The USF study, published in the March 2007 issue of the journal Developmental Biology and highlighted April 26, 2007 in Nature, counters the controversial…
The component, IL-17, was recognized only in the past 18 months to be a primary cause of bone destruction and inflammation in autoimmune diseases. Therapies…
Huntington's disease is one of a number of degenerative diseases marked by clumps of malformed protein in brain cells. Symptoms include abnormal movements,…
The brain contains about 100 million nerve cells, each having 10,000 connections to other nerves cells. These connections, called synapses, chemically transmit…
Research projects to be funded will further clarify the roles of amyloid precursor protein (APP) metabolites, which regulate stem cells in the brain, as well…
Anthrax killed five people in 2001 when letters containing the bacteria's spores were sent through the mail. The UF findings, published last week in the EMBO…
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death and an area where novel therapies to block metastasis are desperately needed, according to first author…
Railway sleepers made from waste plastic, including recycled bumper scrap and old computer cases could be putting in an appearance on UK railway tracks soon,…
At first, they gingerly sniff out pre-existing connections between brain cells but as the new neurons mature over time they get emboldened and muscle out the…
Combining a platinum chemotherapy agent and the diabetes drug rosiglitazone halted or shrank mouse tumors as much as three times more effectively than either…
Their work, providing the first comprehensive profile of cell movement, could lead to a better understanding of cell migration in cancer metastasis and…
The overwhelming majority of genes are represented in two copies in the cells of animals: one is received from the mother, the other – from the father. In many…
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