It is often assumed that people with parents who lived to be very old are more likely to live to a grand old age themselves.“But that’s just not true – our…
The article has been published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI). GGTase-I is found in all cells but is particularly important for the function of…
“Body Worlds – The Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies” is the most widely attended exhibit in the world, said Jane Desmond, a professor of anthropology…
The discovery that a large cluster of genes appears to have jumped directly from one species of fungus to another, however, significantly strengthens the…
An ambitious hunt by Johns Hopkins scientists for actively “jumping genes” in humans has yielded compelling new evidence that the genome, anything but static,…
Drinking excess alcohol during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) due to the damaging effects of alcohol on a developing baby's brain. Despite…
Understanding how the immune system works in these external surfaces has implications for understanding such inflammatory diseases as asthma, psoriasis, IBD,…
“Cancer is not a random bunch of selfish rogue cells behaving badly, but a highly-efficient pre-programmed response to stress, honed by a long period of…
A digital signal processing technique long used by statisticians to analyze data is helping Houston scientists understand the roots of memory and learning,…
Now a research team based at the Medical Center of the University of Munich, and led by Privatdozent Dr. Carsten Rudolph, has taken a new approach that avoids…
Foreign entities within the body get chopped into pieces by antigen-presenting cells (APCs), which display the resulting chunks on their surface. These…
Many natural compounds found in plant and animals display potent medicinal capabilities, but their intricate chemical structures prevent large-scale…
The findings are part of a comprehensive report in this week's Science by members of the Daphnia Genomics Consortium, an international network of scientists…
A low cost, nanometer-sized drug to treat chronic wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers or burns, has been developed by a group of scientists from the Hebrew…
An international team of researchers has made new links between 29 regions of the genome and ulcerative colitis – a common form of inflammatory bowel disease…
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine may have found a remedy: injectable fluorescent peptides that cause hard-to-see…
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