The study was completed by researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), the Department of Cell Biology of the University of…
The formation of misshaped proteins – a process suggested to be behind neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s – can affect an important…
In a new study published in PLoS Biology, Mindy Nelson, Kate Ihle, Gro Amdam, and colleagues reveal one possible path to community by showing that a single…
University of Iowa researchers and collaborators have identified new genetic mutations that likely cause the common form of cleft lip and palateThe results…
Pharmaceutical Sciences Prof. Kishor M. Wasan has created a liquid preparation that incorporates drug molecules in fat (lipid-based formulation) so that…
However, these same compounds may indeed benefit human health, but for reasons that are quite different – the body sees them as foreign compounds, researchers…
Over the past several years, Joslin Investigator Mary R. Loeken, Ph.D., and her colleagues at Joslin Diabetes Center have unlocked several mysteries behind…
A research team from Michigan State University and Saginaw Valley State University measured the BMI of more than 400 college students – some of whom were…
Every medical and biological textbook says that nerves function by sending electrical impulses along their length. “But for us as physicists, this cannot be…
Stem cells have the extraordinary capacity to divide producing two very distinct cells: one retains stem cell identity and continues to undergo asymmetric…
Kisspeptin is a hormone coded by the KiSS-1 gene. This gene was discovered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and researchers decided to name it after the town’s most…
Estimates of numbers vary, but most experts agree that around 1 woman in 13 in the UK will have thyroid disease, with the figure increasing for older women….
In concrete, the Biotechnology Laboratory team at the University Hospital (University of Navarra), in close collaboration with the Pharmacogenomics laboratory…
This work, published March 6, 2007 in the journal Developmental Cell, sheds new light on the mechanism by which insulin-producing beta cells are generated in…
At sea level, the strong C-F bond makes fluorocarbons thermally and chemically stable. As a result, fluorocarbons have been used in many commercial…
On the road to making biofuels more economically competitive with fossil fuels, there are significant potholes to negotiate. For cellulosic ethanol production,…
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