According to the study's corresponding author, Dr. Wonhee Suh of the CHA University Stem Cell Institute, diabetes is often associated with impaired wound…
Those behaviors often end once the mating is complete. But male and female insects continue to influence each other on molecular, cellular and physiological…
Brain imaging studies of blind people as they read words in Braille show activity in precisely the same part of the brain that lights up when sighted readers…
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed an experimental vaccine that appears to protect against an increasingly…
Inflammatory reactions come in several flavors—Th1 and Th2, for example—each classified according to the proteins, or cytokines, that predominate. Tumors are…
Using a novel analytical process, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology found that the complex antifungal molecules are not distributed evenly…
Such control may eventually play a role in the design of ultra-tiny electrical gadgets, created to perform myriad useful tasks, from biological and chemical…
The new species Polyconites hadriani, which was discovered in 2007, has been crowned the oldest in the Polyconites genus of the family Polyconitidae (rudists),…
Experiments to investigate the function of NK cells have proven difficult to interpret because the interactions between the various components of the immune…
Calculations indicate that each human cell contains roughly a billion protein molecules. In other words, it's crowded inside the cell, and order must be…
Cancer develops from a disturbed balance between the division, the growth and the death of cells. This is what makes it so difficult to treat this disease: the…
It's a discordant note in the symphony of good news that usually accompanies stem cell research announcements. Stem cells hold enormous promise in regenerative…
After analyzing the genome, investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and their collaborators report they have identified unique…
The transport of ions is essential for the routine maintenance of the body. For this reason cells contain specialized enzymes that act as pumps that help ions…
Food scientist Julie Goddard recently received a four-year, $488,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture and Food Research…
Malaria is spread by mosquitoes which breed in open water and spend much of their larval stage feeding on fungi and microorganisms at the water surface.New…
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