In two major studies published in Nature Genetics today, researchers use biological understanding to dissect the genetics of diabetes. An international team…
In a literature study the ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law summarised the negative effects of obesity, smoking and drinking on the natural reproductive…
Biophysicists at TUM, the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, have published the results of single-molecule experiments that bring a higher-resolution tool to…
A large international research group led by Dr. Tarik Möröy, a researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), has discovered that a…
For more than a century, biologists have marveled at the highly cooperative nature of ants, bees and other social insects that work together to determine the…
Their findings, which may lead to new therapies and improved diagnostics for retinal disease, will appear online in advance of publication in the journal…
The DNA biomolecule, responsible in nature for storing hereditary information, is being used increasingly as a component in nanotechnology. One successful…
An international research consortium has found 13 new genetic variants that influence blood glucose regulation, insulin resistance, and the function of…
In a study published in the Jan.17 edition of Nature Medicine, Colleen Delaney, M.D., and colleagues describe the first use of a method to vastly expand the…
“Our study reveals the interaction of genetic and environmental factors such as dietary habits in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease,” explained Dr….
Most skin cancers are highly curable, but require surgery that can be painful and scarring.A new study by Loyola University Health System researchers could…
The team found a new type of fibro/adipogenic progenitors, or FAPs, that generate fatty fibrous tissues when transplanted into damaged muscles in mice….
Cancer-initiating cells that launch glioblastoma multiforme, the most lethal type of brain tumor, also suppress an immune system attack on the disease,…
Researchers led by Royce Mohan, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual science in the UK College of Medicine, found that the small molecule withaferin…
The paper will be made available online ahead of print at www.genesdev.org.Innate immune cells, including macrophages, comprise a large fraction of the…
In exchange for the pollination service provided by the wasp, the fig fruit provides room and board for the wasp's developing young. However, wasps do not…
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