Microvesicles are smallest cell elements which are present in all body fluids and are different, depending on whether a person is healthy or sick. This could…
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Harvard researchers have discovered an alternative mechanism for activating Ras that…
“This is a classic example of a basic research discovery. X-inactivation is a flagship model for understanding how non-coding RNAs orchestrate large-scale…
A team of scientists from Temple University School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania has moved another step closer to solving a decades-long…
The accumulation of particular abnormal proteins, including amyloid-ß (Aβ) among others, in patients' brains plays a central role in this disease. Prof. Frank…
“We found that the extent and distribution of regional gray matter volume loss in the brain was strongly influenced by gender,” said lead researcher Maria…
The system they developed has allowed them to predict, for example, the relationship between two human proteins and telomeres, which led to their possible…
A study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Biotechnology for Biofuels appears to have solved this problem, using gene manipulation techniques to…
The genome encodes the complete information needed by an organism, including that required for protein production. Viruses, which are up to a thousand times…
Now, a study published in BioMed Central's open-access journal BMC Plant Biology reveals for the first time that the distinctive black-red colouring is based…
The researchers used cutting-edge molecular biology and electron-microscopy techniques to “see” one of influenza's essential protein complexes in unprecedented…
The cerebral cortex of the human brain has been called “the crowning achievement of evolution.” Ironically, it is so complex that even our greatest minds and…
New findings reveal the surprisingly complex protein-coding capacity of the human cytomegalovirus, or HCMV, and provide the first steps toward understanding…
There are 300 pilot whales inhabiting the Straight of Gibraltar. Here these cetaceans remain throughout the entire year in the water of the Mediterranean and…
While in deep dreamless sleep, our hippocampus sends messages to our cortex and changes its plasticity, possibly transferring recently acquired knowledge to…
A hungry mantis shrimp may be the last thing that a passing fish sees before it is snatched from the water by the predator. Maya deVries from the University of…
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