The research, conducted by a team that includes scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Karolinska Institute in…
Elephants have joined a small, elite group of species-including humans, great apes and dolphins-that have the ability to recognize themselves in the mirror,…
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Vermont have discovered a key molecular mechanism that allows tiny flies and other…
“These drugs have been tested in a variety of Huntington's disease models and some HD human trials and results are very difficult to interpret,” said Dr. Ilya…
Hepatitis C attacks the liver. An estimated 20 percent of patients go on to develop cirrhosis, a condition that involves destruction of liver cells.Patients…
The epigenome is the interface of genetics and environment, where plasticity of epigenetic changes modifies the hard wiring of our genetic code. Increasingly…
The Strategic Award will further bolster the reputation of a laboratory already renowned for its research into the neural basis of human cognition, work which…
More than 1 million Americans have Crohn's or colitis, known collectively as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). “Crohn's and colitis are chronic conditions that…
The results of their research, to be published in the October 26 issue of the prestigious journal Nature, describe how the operational mode of several…
University of Oregon researchers have found an unexpected regulatory link between cellular responses to hypoxia and heat shock. Central to the discovery is a…
Proteins build up the body’s cells and tissues, and knowledge of the human genome has entailed that scientists today know all the proteins our bodies can…
Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered in mouse models that a gene called Six3 is one of the earliest critical regulators…
Researchers, headed by evolutionary biologist Professor Sandie Baldauf, of the University of York, and biochemist Professor Pauline Schaap, of the University…
How will a biomaterial on the lab bench actually work inside the human body? Will a patient accept the new material or suffer an inflammatory response? And can…
With the research support from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a Wisconsin biotech company has found that a compound from a protein found in jellyfish…
A new study investigating the effects of chemotherapy on cognitive function in mice has confirmed what many cancer patients receiving treatment have often…
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