Molecular geneticists call big boss proteins that switch on broad developmental or metabolic programs “master regulators,” as in master regulators of muscle…
An international consortium of Huntington’s disease experts, including several from the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at UC Irvine, has generated…
Harnessing the power of the sun has inspired scientists and engineers to look for ways to turn sunlight into clean energy to heat houses, fuel factories and…
The African virus causes fever in humans, inflicting liver damage, blindness, encephalitis and even death on a small percentage of those it infects. It also…
RUB biologists have deliberately transformed stem cells from the spinal cord of mice into immature nerve cells. This was achieved by changing the cellular…
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been able, for the first time, to watch viruses infecting individual bacteria by…
Microscopically small submarines that can swim through our blood to clear out clogged arteries or destroy malignant tumors. This concept may sound utopian, but…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg have gained important insights for stem cell research which are also…
Twelve of the 57 members of the Saskatchewan family who participated in the study had previously been diagnosed with PD.UBC Medical Genetics Prof. Matthew…
The most common cause of dementia, Alzheimer's disease results in the loss of cognitive faculty. In the majority of cases, Alzheimer's disease occurs after age…
Organisms employ a fascinating array of strategies to identify and restrain invasive pieces of foreign DNA, such as those introduced by viruses. For example,…
When babies are born with a hole in their heart (either between the upper or lower chambers), they have a septal defect, the most common form of congenital…
Top athletes and other virtuosi can perform sequences of movements with a temporal precision of a millisecond (1/1000 second). However, how this is…
“BEAN – Bridging the European and Anatolian Neolithic” is the name of a new multinational educational network which has received funding from the European…
Researchers focusing on this effect as a possible target for cancer therapies have examined how biochemical signals present in cancer cells regulate the…
Jerry Sims, a U of I associate professor of crop sciences and USDA-Agricultural Research Service research leader and Andres Gomez, a graduate student from…
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