Unique brain ‘fingerprint’ can predict drug effectiveness
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Alternative splicing is crucial to muscle mass maintenance
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Despite the importance that changes in muscle mass have in aging, overall body metabolism and...
Altered gene regulation is more widespread in cancer than expected
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A large-scale study provides new insights into the mechanisms that can lead to cancer. It...
Biologists discover process that neutralizes tumors
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Fishy chemicals in farmed salmon
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/Carla Ng PITTSBURGH (July 10, 2018) ... Persistent organic pollutants--or POPs--skulk around the environment threatening human...
Asian residents are exposed to 9 times more air pollution than Americans or Europeans
According to the World Health Organisation, about 88 percent of premature deaths in low- and middle-income countries in Asia can...
As brain extracts meaning from vision, study tracks progression of processing
Here's the neuroscience of a neglected banana (and a lot of other things in daily life): whenever you look at...
Developmental screening and surveillance rates remain low, new study suggests
Only about one-third of young children in the U.S. receive recommended screenings or surveillance designed to catch developmental delays. Findings...
Mapping the genetic controllers in heart disease
Researchers have developed a 3D map of the gene interactions that play a key role in cardiovascular disease, a study...
Brain metastases common and difficult to treat in ROS1 lung cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Increasingly, doctors are treating lung cancer based on the genetic rearrangements driving the disease....
Isotopia Co. and Bar-Ilan U. developing new method for diagnosis and treatment of cancer
The Israeli Isotopia Company, in collaboration with Prof. Rachela Popovtzer of Bar-Ilan University, is conducting a joint study to develop...
Peering deep into the cell to reveal essential components in cell division
Tsukuba, Japan - The cell is the basic biological unit of all known living organisms, and the core of the...
Isolation and characterization of key enzyme for ephedrine production
CALGARY, Canada, July 10, 2018 -Epimeron, Inc., a world-class provider of gene discovery and biosynthetic pathway optimization, today announced the...
A chaperonin protein, GroEL, has a more complex mechanism than was thought before
Credit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa - Proteins must fold in a specific way to function. This is often assisted by molecular...
Study shows how HIV is shielded from immune attack
Credit: UNSW Scientists from UNSW Sydney and the UK have discovered that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) hijacks a small...
What does the koala genome tell us about the taste of eucalyptus?
Credit: Kyoto University / Takashi Hayakawa Koalas have long captured people's hearts and minds thanks to their cuddly features and...
American Association of Feline Practitioners releases new feline anesthesia guidelines
The American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) today released the first feline-specific anesthesia guidelines to the veterinary community, which are...
Immune discovery should help develop improved vaccines for infants and newborns
Scientists have just identified a class of 'danger signals' that are highly efficient at triggering an immune response in infants...
What separates the strong from weak among connections in the brain
Credit: Littleton lab / MIT Picower Institute To work at all, the nervous system needs its cells, or neurons, to...
Research update: Cellular ‘garbage disposal’ has another job
Johns Hopkins researchers have found that the cellular "garbage disposal," known to scientists as proteasomes, may not only be responsible...
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