Yuan Yao, an assistant professor of food science, altered the surface of a carbohydrate found in sweet corn called phytoglycogen, which led to the creation of…
“I looked at the gene that makes the body's testosterone detector to determine if variations in this detector's sensitivity to the chemical causes people to be…
This new mechanism for visual cognition challenges the currently held model of sight and could change the way neuroscientists study the brain.The new vision…
One process used to produce nanoscopic structures like ever-smaller integrated circuits, biosensors, and gene chips is known as dip-pen nanolithography, in…
Researchers in Japan have launched FANTOM5, Functional Annotation of the Mammalian Genome, an international effort to globally map transcription initiation in…
Previous research suggested that such “whale falls” were homes for unique animals that lived nowhere else. However, after sinking five whale carcasses in…
Scientists at Umeå Plant Science Center and the international company Syngenta, in a joint study of genetic regulation in the sugar beet, have discovered an…
The Alzheimer’s insights demonstrate how fundamental insights on human metabolism can be gleaned from computer models that incorporate large genomic and…
This system, called “quorum sensing,” is an interesting example of sophistication among microbes, says Helen Blackwell, an associate professor of chemistry at…
Vaccine production hinges on the availability of hundreds of millions of eggs – and even with the vaccine, flu still claims somewhere around 36,000 lives in…
The findings, Millar says, not only provide information about the molecular processes underlying skin development, they also suggest a potential anticancer…
Princeton researchers focused on identifying and studying the gene in zebrafish embryos, and the team's work expanded to include collaborations with other…
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have adapted gene chip microarray technology to the study of glycans, with an approach they call “shotgun…
That is the conclusion of a new study published online on Dec. 5 by the journal Nature Neuroscience. The experiment provides the first evidence for seasonal…
Tatsuya HiranoChief ScientistChromosome Dynamics LaboratoryRIKEN Advanced Science InstituteThe DNA is a remarkable molecule in many ways. It encodes our entire…
As cells go about the process of building new proteins, each amino acid gets delivered individually to the protein-synthesizing machinery of the ribosome by a…
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