Sertoli cells form the blood-testes barrier that separates the blood compartment of the testes from the compartment of the seminiferous tubules. Once…
The research, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF), shows that malfunction of…
They attack other colonies, plunder and rob, kill other colonies' inhabitants or keep them as slaves: Ants are usually regarded as prototypes of social beings…
Persistent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can lead to chronic hepatitis C and then progress to fatal liver diseases including liver cirrhosis and liver…
This breakthrough opens the door to harnessing the power of these life-producing cells to treat cancer and other debilitating diseases more effectively.The…
Researchers at the Salk Institute have been able to genetically incorporate “unnatural” amino acids, such as those emitting green fluorescence, into neural…
Markers which are more frequent in individuals with the disease are more likely to be involved in the condition.Using this approach the investigators found an…
Heng and fellow researcher Root Gorelick, Ph.D., associate professor at Carleton University in Canada, propose that although diversity may result from a…
Researchers at the Salk Institute have been able to genetically incorporate “unnatural” amino acids, such as those emitting green fluorescence, into neural…
Annually changing flu vaccines with their hit-and-miss effectiveness may soon give way to a single, near-universal flu vaccine, according to a new report from…
The team of researchers, led by Physics lecturer Dr Antonios Kanaras, showed that a small dose of gold nanoparticles can activate or inhibit genes that are…
Dr Elaine Ferguson from Cardiff University's School of Dentistry has utilised a new technique which attaches tiny nano-sized biodegradable polymers to the…
After living incognito for millions of years in a remote area of a forested mountain range in the Philippines, seven newfound species of mice owe their recent…
The DNA encodes the entire genetic information required for building the proteins of the cell. Hence, DNA breaks disrupt the proteins and lead to changes in…
Mesenchymal stem cells reaped from bone marrow had been hailed as the key to growing new organs to replace those damaged or destroyed by violence or disease,…
An international team of scientific experts on E. coli collaborated on the rapid sequencing project to provide more comprehensive information about the origins…
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