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ARLINGTON, Va.–Scientists sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have genetically modified a common soil bacteria to create electrical...

Cellular snowplow keeps genes open

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A new discovery at Michigan State University has revealed how special genes stay open for business,...

Scientists find a salty way to kill MRSA

Staphylococcus aureus bacteria Credits: Imperial College London Scientists have discovered a new way to attack Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. The team,...

Study suggests ways to block hypertension in those with sleep apnea

Nanduri Prabhakar, PhD, director of the Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology of Oxygen Sensing at the...

Potential therapeutic target for Huntington’s disease

Credits: yourgenome.org There is new hope in the fight against Huntington’s disease. Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered that changing...

Chronic pain linked to partners of people with depression

Partners of people with depression are more likely to suffer from chronic pain, research has found. The study shows that...

Max Planck Florida’s Sunposium 2017 Neural Circuits Conference

Once again, several of the world’s most esteemed neuroscience researchers will gather in Palm Beach County to speak at the...

Faculty at MIT and beyond respond forcefully to an article critical of Suzanne Corkin

August 10, 2016

On August 7, 2016, the New York Times Magazine published “The Brain That Couldn’t Remember,” an article adapted from the...

New method opens up the possibility of customizing breast milk for premature children

About 7 percent of all Danish children are born prematurely. This is of significant im-portance not only to the child’s...

Researchers have developed a new class of artificial proteins

In the journal, Nature Communications, a team of Danish researchers reports that they have developed a new class of artificial...

Could suppression of Gαq/11 signaling be a promising target for treating bone loss?

Intermittent parathyroid hormone treatment (iPTH) and mechanical loading through exercise have both been shown to stimulate bone formation. These osteoanabolic...

New breakthrough in understanding dystonia

Researchers at VIB-KU Leuven have managed to get a clearer view on the roots of dystonia, a neurological disorder that...

New research supports the removal of drug use as a restriction to hepatitis C treatment

New, highly curative hepatitis C therapy is both safe and effective as a treatment option for people who inject drugs...

Where there’s smoke — and a mutation — there may be an evolutionary edge for humans

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A genetic mutation may have helped modern humans adapt to smoke exposure from fires and perhaps...

UH researchers are pioneering tools for heart regeneration

Credit: Courtesy of Yu Liu HOUSTON, Aug. 8, 2016 – Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the...

Study may lead to better breast cancer drugs

Biomedical scientists have revealed the inner workings of a group of proteins that help to switch critical genes on and...

How to engineer a stronger immune system

Photo Credit: Elisabeth Fall SAN FRANCISCO, CA–With a trick of engineering, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes improved a potential weapon...

Unsafe levels of toxic chemicals found in drinking water for 6 million Americans

Boston, MA – Levels of a widely used class of industrial chemicals linked with cancer and other health problems–polyfluoroalkyl and...

Cascade of events leading to prion disease described

Philadelphia, PA, August 9, 2016 – Prion diseases are deadly neurodegenerative disorders in humans and animals that are characterized by...

HIV is not a super-spreader of drug-resistant tuberculosis