Month: April 2017

Scientists have identified the gene responsible for generating acylceramide, the key lipid in forming the skin barrier that protects us ...

Mitochondrial disorders (MIDs) frequently manifest as myopathy. Myopathy may also involve the respiratory muscles. Affection of the respiratory muscles may ...

Bottom Line: A vaccine targeting cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigen pp65, combined with high-dose chemotherapy (temozolomide), improved both progression-free survival and overall ...

Credit: Clinical Cancer Research/American Association for Cancer Research DURHAM, N.C. -- A phase one study of 11 patients with glioblastoma ...

Credit: Please credit 'choosing face infographic by David White' When trying to pick the most flattering pictures for online profiles, ...

Credit: 21 Lux photography/Heike Engel If you're small, smells are a good way to stand out. A team of researchers ...

Credit: Anne Gordon, Whale Watching Panama Whales from both poles migrate long distances to breed in tropical waters. Smithsonian scientist ...

Imagine that the way flies and butterflies drink nectar and other fluids can be imitated for use in medicine, potentially ...

Credit: Zdenek Dohnalek RICHLAND, Wash. - When a molecule of water comes in for a landing on the common catalyst ...

Credit: Michigan Medcine Although GI disorders are among the most common medical conditions, many patients don't consider their symptoms serious ...

Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology (left); Denise Applewhite, Princeton University (right) The National Science Foundation (NSF) today recognized Baratunde "Bara" ...

After more than a decade of declining cholera incidence, Vietnam faced an increase in cases of the diarrheal disease during ...

(University of Bonn) Nematodes are a huge threat to agriculture since they parasitize important crops such as wheat, soybean, and ...

Loading video... Credit: Aaron Nathans, Princeton University As artificial intelligence systems "learn" language from existing texts, they exhibit the same ...

Loading video... Credit: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Researchers have created a version of CRISPR-Cas that can be used ...

Credit: Princeton University In debates over the future of artificial intelligence, many experts think of the new systems as coldly ...

Credit: Waseda University Tokyo, April 14 - A research group led by Hitoshi Kurumizaka, a professor of structural biology at ...

Credit: Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally, UC Berkeley. Harvester photos courtesy of MIT. Imagine a future in which ...

Credit: Image courtesy of Robert Landick MADISON, Wisconsin -- There are many processes that take place in cells that are ...

Credit: Howard Berg, Harvard University The bacterial flagellum is one of nature's smallest motors, rotating at up to 60,000 revolutions ...