Nature Immunology
An infectious hereditary illness?
Researchers at the CNRS Laboratoire d’enzymologie et biochimie structurales, studying Huntington’s disease in collaboration with Professor Ron Kopito’s team at…
International study identifies gene variants associated with early heart attack
The largest study ever completed of genetic factors associated with heart attacks has identified nine genetic regions – three not previously described – that…
Hattrick in deciphering of heart attack genes
On February 8th, 2009, the online is-sue of the renowned scientific magazine Nature Genetics publishes three large-scale studies in parallel on these findings….
Infant galaxies – small and hyperactive
When galaxies are born, do their stars form everywhere at once, or only within a small core region? Recent measurements of an international team led by…
World's largest snake shows tropics were hotter in the past
Partial skeletons of a new giant, boa constrictor-like snake named “Titanoboa” found in Colombia by an international team of scientists and now at the…
Scientists Uncover New Class of Non-Protein Coding Genes in Mammals with Key Functions
A research team at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has uncovered a vast new class of previously unrecognized…