Breakthrough discovery in cancer treatment
Michail Sitkovsky, an immunophysiology expert at Northeastern University, and his research colleagues have made a breakthrough discovery in cancer treatment. ...
Novel drug mechanism that fights brain cancer
Researchers at UC Davis have developed and characterized a molecule that interferes with the internal regulation of cancer cells, causing ...
Unlocking key to immunological memory in bacteria
A powerful genome editing tool may soon become even more powerful. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) ...
Microbial Nanowires
Scientific debate has been hot lately about whether microbial nanowires, the specialized electrical pili of the mud-dwelling anaerobic bacterium Geobacter ...
3-D printed parts provide low-cost, custom alternatives for lab equipment
The 3-D printing scene, a growing favorite of do-it-yourselfers, has spread to the study of plasma physics. With a series ...
Manipulating cells’ shapes could treat breast cancer
Changing the shape of breast cancer cells could make the disease more sensitive to treatments - even driving the body's ...
Neuroscientists identify new way several brain areas communicate
Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have identified a new pathway by which several brain areas communicate within the brain’s striatum. Published ...
People use handshakes to sniff each other out
Limp or firm, your handshake conveys subliminal social cues. Now, research reveals it also transmits chemical signals that could explain ...
New target identified in fight against Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis
Highlighting a potential target in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests that triggering a ...
Brain’s GPS never stops working
Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have found that navigational brain cells that help sense direction are as electrically active ...
Scientists crack piece of neural code for learning
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: researchers slice a brain into thin little sections and, just by measuring ...
BPA exposure linked to autism spectrum disorder
A newly published study is the first to report an association between bisphenol-A (BPA), a common plasticizer used in a ...
Democratizing synthetic biology
Protein engineering is the crucial pulse of the booming, relatively new scientific discipline. Scientists grow, harvest, and reprogram proteins to ...
Sizing up cells: Study finds possible regulator of growth
Modern biology has attained deep knowledge of how cells work, but the mechanisms by which cellular structures assemble and grow ...
Genetically speaking, mammals are more like their fathers
You might resemble or act more like your mother, but a novel research study reveals that mammals are genetically more ...
Whales Inspire New Fluid Sensor
How can a humpback whale and a device that works on the same principle as the clicker that starts your ...
How our microbes make us who we are
Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that ...
Bumblebees make false memories too
It's well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also "remember" ...
3-D printing offers innovative method to deliver medication
3-D printing could become a powerful tool in customizing interventional radiology treatments to individual patient needs, with clinicians having the ...
New Treatment Breaks Migraine Cycle
An innovative interventional radiology treatment has been found to offer chronic migraine sufferers sustained relief of their headaches, according to ...
