The research is scheduled for online publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of April 5.In the study, U-M…
Jiang is with the ARS Crops Pathology and Genetics Research Unit at Davis, Calif. He's collaborating with researchers from the University of California-Davis…
When the prion protein misfolds and aggregates in humans, it can cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and…
Changes in synaptic strength after repeated communication between neurons is a key mechanism for induction of learning and memory in the brain. Identifying…
In an upcoming issue of Current Biology, Indiana University Bloomington biologists present the first concrete evidence for how gene duplications can lead to…
To borrow inositol from a person's brain, the fungi have an expanded set of genes that encode for sugar transporter molecules. While a typical fungus has just…
The study, carried out by the Departments of Radiology at the University of California and the Technical University of Munich, is freely available on-line at…
Was it a horror film or a sci-fi spoof? Fans of the 1986 blockbuster “The Fly” have been debating the issue ever since but one point has always been accepted….
The EU-funded project MitoCheck, which started in 2004, has now been successfully rounded off. Eleven European research teams and companies, coordinated by the…
Though heart disease is a major cause of disability and death, very little is understood about its genetic underpinnings. Recently, an international team of…
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Uppsala University, UCLA and more than 20 other institutions…
Name a human gene, and you’ll find a movie online showing you what happens to cells when it is switched off. This is the resource that researchers at the…
Building on previous findings demonstrating that breast cancer cells emit unique electromagnetic signals, engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas…
The strongest known recurrent genetic cause of schizophrenia impairs communications between the brain's decision-making and memory hubs, resulting in working…
A Los Alamos National Laboratory toxicologist and a multidisciplinary team of researchers have documented potential cellular damage from…
Ensembl, a genome annotation system co-developed and jointly run by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,…
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