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New Compound Could Be Alternative Strategy for Preventing HIV Infection
With the help of effective drug therapies, HIV patients are living longer, healthier lives. Now, researchers want to improve these drug therapies and develop…
World's least known bird rediscovered
During the summer of 2008, the American ornithologist Robert J Timmins was commissioned by the American aid organisation USAID to compile an inventory of bird…
Illuminating Protein Networks in One Step
Described today in the journal Nature Methods, the new micro-western arrays combine the specificity of the popular “Western blot” protein assay with the large…
Aging Stem Cells: New Study Sheds Light on Senescence Process
Throughout adulthood, stem cells work to replace mature cells lost to turnover, injury or disease. Some of the genes responsible for keeping stem cells active…
Switching neurons
If both eyes are open during mammalian development, pyramidal neurons in the visual cortex mature such that they ‘preferentially’ fire in response to the…
Discovery of epigenetic memory during breast cancer
According to the researchers, it is becoming increasingly accepted that changes that do not affect the genetic blueprint or DNA sequence, known as the…