In only a few generations, the male cricket on Kauai, one of the Hawaiian Islands, underwent a mutation – a sudden heritable change in its genetic material –…
Using multiphoton fluorescence microscopy, a technique pioneered at Cornell by physicist Watt W. Webb, researchers have for the first time been able to watch…
The study appears in the Sept. 25 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology. Both strains of the herpes virus — HSV-1, the strain that causes cold sores on the…
The researchers' findings suggest that copper and its transporter, a protein called Atp7a, are vital to human thinking. They speculate that variations in the…
All proteins are made out of twenty amino acids. These natural building blocks determine the structure and function of the protein. Bengt Mannervik’s research…
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have identified an emotional control circuit in the human brain which keeps emotionally intense stimuli from…
Enzymes are complex proteins capable of catalyzing specific biochemical reactions in cells. While it has long been recognized that dynamic fluctuations in…
These visual maps consist of millions of nerve cell contacts that need to be wired correctly during development in order for the adult animal to see normally….
Their studies link the evolution of the adaptive immune system in mammals, where B cells produce antibodies to fight infection, to the more primitive innate…
Larock, a University Professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, found the thin, square piece he was looking for and smacked it against his hand. This one…
With several genes already implicated in causing cleft lip and palate, the authors note their addition to the list comes with a unique biological twist. The…
A team led by Associate Professor Jun-Ping Liu, from the Department of Immunology, has identified two proteins that are involved in stopping the gene from…
The discovery of this pathway, published in the September 22 issue of the journal Cell, advances our understanding of how cells mount a survival response when…
We have all suffered the irritation of being the food source for hungry mosquitoes. While it is generally well known that female mosquitoes need a meal of…
With winter on its way and the flu season about to begin Londoners are being offered the opportunity to sign up for a unique clinical trial to test a new DNA…
“In proteins, the three-dimensional structure is very important to the function, and this is just one example,” said Peter Virnau, a postdoctoral fellow in…
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