Yet this knowledge could be “a matter of life and death,” says University of Vermont biologist Bryan Ballif.While blood transfusion problems due to Langereis…
University of Illinois at Chicago biologist Thomas Park and colleagues at UIC and the University of Texas Heath Science Center at San Antonio think the…
Only 10 years ago, deciphering the genetic information from one individual in a matter of weeks to find a certain disease-causing genetic mutation would have…
H5N1 influenza has been at the center of heated discussions in science and policy circles since the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity…
The findings, which appear in the current issue of the journal Science, provide new insights into nerve cell communication in the brain that could also play a…
“From an early age, I was fascinated by what I could smell and how I reacted to it and by how flavor works and things like that,” said John G.Hildebrand, a…
The data comes from an international Phase II study of Zelboraf that included 132 patients followed for at least one year. Patients with this advanced form of…
The street drug commonly referred to as “bath salts” is one of a growing list of synthetic and unevenly regulated narcotics that are found across the United…
How much calcium could a hibernating woodchuck's heart cells sequester, if a hibernating woodchuck's heart cells could sequester calcium? More than enough, it…
Although it’s widely accepted that inflammation is a critical underlying factor in a range of diseases, including the progression of cancer, little is known…
From an engineering point of view, one all-purpose model of pump on the surface of a cell should suffice to keep these levels constant: When the concentration…
Thrombin plays a key role in various pathologies of the haemostatic system. Overexpression of thrombin can result in thrombosis, whereas its underexpression…
Such is the case for a team of Whitehead Institute scientists, whose latest research on the evolution of the human Y chromosome confirms that the Y—despite…
Dr. Gil Levkowitz and his team in the Molecular Cell Biology Department have now revealed a new kind of ON-OFF switch in the brain for regulating the…
While RNA is an appealing drug target, small molecules that can actually affect its function have rarely been found. But now scientists from the Florida campus…
Investigators from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) and 12 other centers in the United States and Australia have found that a new drug for patients with…
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