When plants feel stress from a lack of water, they close their epidermal pores, or stomata, to prevent water loss via transpiration. Each stoma is flanked by a…
Women with a deleterious gene mutation are diagnosed with breast cancer almost eight years earlier than relatives of the previous generation who also had the…
Richard Holbrooke, John Ritter, Lucille Ball, Jonathan Larson and Great Britain's King George II were all taken by the same silent killer: an acute aortic…
University of Arkansas researchers are taking grape skins left from making wine and juice and using “green” processes to extract powerful antioxidants that can…
Both cell types have the ability to differentiate into any cell in the body, but their origins – in embryonic and adult tissue – suggest that they are not…
A study involving more than 200,000 people worldwide has identified 29 DNA sequence variations in locations across the human genome that influence blood…
For the first time, USC scientists have mapped out a neuroreceptor. This scientific breakthrough promises to revolutionize the engineering of drugs used to…
Research published in Nature and co-led by scientists from Queen Mary, University of London has discovered 16 new gene regions that influence blood pressure. Toby Johnson, Patricia Munroe and Mark Caulfield from Barts and The London Medical School co-led with US and European colleagues an international collaborative study involving 351 scientists from 234 institutions based in 24 countries around the world. This study analysed data on over 270,000 people to find genetic variations in the DNA of each person that were associated with higher or lower blood pressure. This enabled them to identify 16 new gene regions influencing blood pressure and provided confirmation of 12 other gene regions that had previously been discovered by the Barts and The London team….
Specifically, the research team looked at a multi-drug resistant bacterium called Klebsiella pneumoniae, which is increasingly resistant to most drugs of last…
One of the greatest problems slowing such work is that researchers have found major complications in purifying cell mixtures, for instance to remove stem cells…
In the wild, the Venus flytrap only grows in wetlands deficient in nutrients in the USA. The insects that it captures and digests with its leaves provide it…
The past is present when it comes to human evolution.That seems to be the takeaway from new research that concludes “archaic” humans, somewhere in Africa…
The scientists tested the portion of the genome passed exclusively from mother to offspring — the mitochondrial DNA — of four Przewalski's horse lineages and…
New research from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) may help prevent damage to the liver caused by drugs like…
SUNY Downstate scientist Ilham Muslimov, MD, PhD, along with senior author Henri Tiedge, PhD, professor of physiology and pharmacology and of neurology,…
The new nanosensors can quickly detect a broad class of proteins called transcription factors, which serve as the master control switches of life. The research…
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