Tumor cells tend to missegregate chromosomes at a particularly high frequency (a condition known as chromosomal instability, or CIN), which is probably why…
The study indicates that the homogeneity of strong genetic risk factors within dog breeds make dogs an excellent model in which to identify pathways involved…
The study, led by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery in collaboration with rheumatologists at University of Southern California, appears in the…
Polymers are often added to automotive oils to control important physical properties such as viscosity but mechanical and thermal stress can break the polymers…
But Martin Giurfa from the Université de Toulouse, France, suspected that that the bees weren't learning to recognise people. 'Because the insects were…
The findings, by a group led by Andrew M. Lowy, MD, professor of surgery and chief of surgical oncology at the UCSD School of Medicine and the Moores UCSD…
Scientists have identified a molecule that defines which cells are destined to become memory T cells just a few days after a viral infection begins. The…
Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) developed the vaccine because there is no vaccine or treatment for chikungunya…
Ultraviolet (UV) light damages skin by causing chemical bonds to form in the wrong places along the DNA molecules in our cells. Normally, other, even smaller…
They grow neurons on a microchip and check for substances that inhibit the formation of a network between the cells.Scientists from the “Leibniz-Institut für…
On more than one occasion we will have heard that the genome is the library where all the information of each organism is stored. This information is organised…
“For the first time, we have demonstrated an efficient way to transfer DNA into cells without using a virus, currently the most common means of DNA delivery….
Growing at a rate of around 2 to 3 nanometers per second, or about 50 times faster than animal nerve cells, pollen tube tips are believed to travel near the…
Microfluidics is the behavior of fluids at the microscale level. A relatively new technology, it had already shown promise in revolutionizing certain…
Individually, lankacidin and lankamycin, two antibiotics produced naturally by the microbe streptomyces, are marginally effective in warding off pathogens,…
“We found that stopping the expression of two genes—Lin28 and Oct4—reduces ovarian cancer cell growth and survival,” said Yingqun Huang, M.D., assistant…
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