Rapeseed is one of the ten most important agricultural crops worldwide. In spring, the rapeseed fields with their bright yellow flowers are widely visible:…
A large team led by biologists at the University of Southern California carried out what one author called “the first extensive use” of genome-wide association…
The protein, named Kibra, is linked to a relay of chemical signals responsible for shaping and sizing tissue growth by coordinating control of cell…
The strategy – which involved transplanting a specific type of immature neuron from embryonic mice into the visual cortex of young mice – could be used to…
It frequently happens in science that what you throw away turns out to be most valuable. It happened to Deepak Nagrath, but not for long.The Rice assistant…
How do we process thoughts and store memories? A team of researchers headed by Dr. Nahum Sonenberg of McGill's Department of Biochemistry and Goodman Cancer…
Dr Nick West, Associate Faculty of the Mycobacterial group at Centenary, is looking at the genetics of TB in the hope they will reveal a way to reduce the…
Scientists from the Indiana University School of Medicine found that the mutation that causes neurofibromatosis type 1 disease leads to arterial inflammation…
“The challenge in alcohol abuse as opposed to substance abuse — things like cocaine or heroin or PCP — is that alcohol is a perfectly legal substance for…
But more than box office revenues are at stake: if the spliceosome makes a careless cut, disease likely results. Using a new approach to studying the…
“Scleroderma is a common and often devastating condition yet its cause remains mysterious. My greatest hope is that this work will facilitate the development…
The research, conducted in mice, appears in today’s issue of Cancer Research and could lead to more effective therapies for pancreatic and possibly other…
An RTI researcher says the first way to meet this fast-rising demand is to reduce losses from existing production rather than building more reservoirs and…
At least that’s the way Omowunmi Sadik, director of Binghamton University’s Center for Advanced Sensors and Environmental Systems, sees it. She’s working to…
Porphyrins have received a great deal of attention in the scientific community owing to their useful application in a wide variety of areas, such as the…
The Ohio State University researchers discovered in a new animal study that this RNA segment in wounds with limited blood flow lowers the production of a…
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