What makes experts different from the rest of us? Over the past century, this question has prompted a range of studies on various aspects of human cognition,…
The degree of twisting of natural helical structures, such as the DNA double-helix, plays an essential role in many important biological functions. Because of…
By Keiko Sugimoto, Unit Leader, Cell Function Research Unit, RIKEN Plant Science CenterPlants have been cultivated and studied from the earliest days of human…
HIV adapts in a surprising way to survive and thrive in its hiding spot within the human immune system, scientists have learned. While the finding helps…
Although many steps of the pathway were already known, new research from a team including Carnegie's Ying Sun and Zhiyong Wang fills in a missing gap about the…
Professor David Garrod, in the Faculty of Life Sciences, has found that the glue molecules bind only to similar glue molecules on other cells, making a very…
Obtaining consent for genetic studies can be an opportunity for researchers to foster respectful engagement with participants, not merely to mitigate legal…
To understand the emerging science of epigenetics—a field that describes how genes may be regulated without altering the underlying DNA itself—scientists are…
With little more than a conventional photocopier and transparency film, anyone can build a functional microfluidic chip.A local Cambridge high school physics…
Cancer scientists have designed the first molecular test to predict which bladder cancer patients may have cancer involvement in their lymph nodes at the time…
The new approach used established brain imaging techniques in a new way. Instead of measuring how brain activity differs before and after subjects learn a…
Their work is the latest development in the push to develop self-assembling nanoscale materials that mimic the intricacy and functionality of nature's…
Some amoebae do what many people do. Before they travel, they pack a lunch.In results of a study reported today in the journal Nature, evolutionary biologists…
The results are to be published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and are now online.Previous studies have shown that small molecules can interfere with…
The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 43,000 Americans were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and more than 36,000 died from the…
The researchers found their first specimen under one of the biggest rocks in the deepest part of a creek that has been a (literal) stomping ground for aquatic…
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