They are rare, but have very serious consequences for the people concerned: Diseases that are associated with defects in DNA repair. Depending on which repair…
“We have developed a unique approach for the synthesis of highly uniform icosahedral nanoparticles made of platinum (Pt),” explained Hong Yang, a professor of…
The commentary is published online today in The EMBO Journal ahead of a debate in the Italian parliament on whether to change a recent law that allows certain…
Prof. Eugene “Gene” Myers, one of the pioneers in bioinformatics, is affiliated with the group as a mentor. Together with his laboratory at the Max Planck…
UCSF scientists controlled seizures in epileptic mice with a one-time transplantation of medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) cells, which inhibit signaling in…
It has long been known that women with denser breasts are at higher risk for breast cancer. This greater density is caused by an excess of a structural protein…
The broad reach of the effect of mutations in the complex, called BAF, rivals that of another well-known tumor suppressor called p53. It also furthers a…
If each cell is genetically identical, however, how does it grow to be a skin, blood, nerve, bone or other type of cell? How do stem cells read the same…
Environment moulds behaviour – and not just that of people in society, but also at the microscopic level. This is because, for their function, neurons are…
Somewhere between 100 and 1000 billion nerve cells can be found in the human brain. Every single one of them is in contact with 1000 other cells on average….
The tick-borne Lone Star virus has been conclusively identified as part of a family of other tick-borne viruses called bunyaviruses, which often cause fever,…
New research out of the Lillehei Heart Institute at the University of Minnesota shows that by turning on just a single gene, Mesp1, different cell types…
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston scientists determined that Ebola short-circuits the immune system using proteins that work together to shut…
“Despite having the best research and educational institutions in the world, existing US immigration laws serve as a significant hurdle for retaining the…
There are two main ways that molecules can cross a membrane. In passive transport, molecules are able to pass through a membrane protein called a channel…
Described this week in the journal Nature, the work brings attention to what scientists have thought of as a family of molecules called the G protein-coupled…
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