Collagen in cartilage tissues behaves like liquid crystals in a smart phone screen
Cartilage in our joints contains collagen which behaves a bit like the liquid crystals on a smart phone screen, according...
Antibiotics found to weaken body’s ability to fight off disease
Credit: Sanjay Suchak, University Communications Adding another reason for doctors to avoid the overuse of antibiotics, new research shows that...
Female mouse embryos actively remove male reproductive systems
Credit: NIEHS A protein called COUP-TFII determines whether a mouse embryo develops a male reproductive tract, according to researchers at...
Study of nervous system cells can help to understand degenerative diseases
Credit: Suely Nagahashi Marie and Thais Galatro, University of São Paulo Medical School The results of a new research showed...
Two-step process leads to cell immortalization and cancer
A mutation that helps make cells immortal is critical to the development of a tumor, but new research at the...
Bacteria stab amoebae with micro-daggers
Credit: Leo Popovich Bacteria have to watch out for amoeba. Hungry amoebae hunt them: they catch them with their pseudopodia...
Early Indian Ocean trade routes bring chicken, black rat to eastern Africa
Credit: Photo credit: Mark Horton The earliest introduction of domestic chickens and black rats from Asia to the east coast...
SLU biologist receives $480,000 to study singing insects’ serenades
Credit: Ellen Hutti, Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS - Thanks to a recent $480,000 grant from the National Science Foundation...
New gene catalog of ocean microbiome reveals surprises
Credit: HOT Program, UHM SOEST Microbes dominate the planet, especially the ocean, and help support the entire marine food web....
Agroindustrial waste can be used as material for housing and infrastructure
Converting waste into resources, substituting toxic raw materials for healthy inputs, migrating from harmful to sustainable production processes. These are...
The laws of attraction: Pheromones don’t lie, fruit fly research suggests
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Life as a fruit fly seems pretty simple: Hatch, grow, eat some...
Researchers unlock cheesemaking secret
Credit: University of Queensland Researchers say their new knowledge on the inner workings of a bacterium has important implications for...
UC Santa Cruz genomics undergrad awarded prestigious NIH research scholarship
Credit: Photo by Victor Garcia-Zepeda SANTA CRUZ, CA - August 17 , 2017 - UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Office...
New strategy to treat aggressive lung cancer
Dignity Health St. Joseph's Researchers Discover a Novel Therapeutic Strategy to Treat a Particularly Aggressive Subgroup of Lung Cancer PHOENIX...
Impaired DNA replication can cause epigenetic changes inherited for several generations
Credit: Adam Klosin, CRG Cell division is key for renewing the cells in our tissues and organs. There are two...
Noninvasive detection for early stage cancers from circulating DNA
A new DNA sequencing-based method could help noninvasively detect early stage cancers by analyzing fragments of genetic material circulating in...
Scientists develop blood test that spots tumor-derived DNA in people with early-stage cancers
Credit: Reprinted with permission from Victor Velculescu et al., Science Translational Medicine 2017 In a bid to detect cancers early...
Popular immunotherapy target turns out to have a surprising buddy
Credit: The Netherlands Cancer Institute The majority of current cancer immunotherapies focus on PD-L1. This well studied protein turns out...
Toxic formaldehyde is produced inside our own cells, scientists discover
New research has revealed that some of the toxin formaldehyde in our bodies does not come from our environment -...
Cell cycle-blocking drugs can shrink tumors by enlisting immune system in attack on cancer
BOSTON -- In the brief time that drugs known as CDK4/6 inhibitors have been approved for the treatment of metastatic...
