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Ratchet up the pressure: Molecular machine exploits motion in a single direction
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Life is driven by molecular machines. Found in every cell, these tiny motors convert chemical...
Your brain anatomy may play a role in determining your food choices
Our indulgence in delicious but unhealthful food may not necessarily reveal a character flaw. Rather, our ability to exercise self-control...
The psychobiology of online gaming
When researchers looked at expression of a particular gene complex that is activated by chronic stress, they found differences depending...
Fat cells control fat cell growth
Obesity is the plague of our times. Some 80 percent of obese people will develop Type 2 diabetes at some...
Probiotics can protect the skeletons of older women
For the first time in the world, researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have demonstrated that probiotics, dietary supplements...
Garden seed diet for threatened turtle doves has negative impact
Credit: Jenny Dunn Young turtle doves raised on a diet of seeds from non-cultivated arable plants are more likely to...
Scientists print sensors on gummi candy
Credit: N. Adly / TUM Microelectrodes can be used for direct measurement of electrical signals in the brain or heart....
Exposure to fracking chemicals and wastewater spurs fat cell development
Credit: Chris Kassotis, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Exposure to fracking chemicals and wastewater promotes fat cell development, or adipogenesis,...
Novel therapy makes oxidative stress deadly to cancer
Credit: Phil Jones, AU Senior Photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 21, 2018) - Oxidative stress can help tumors thrive, but one...
Cells stop dividing when this gene kicks into high gear, study finds
Credit: Darleny Lizardo/Alan Siegel/University at Buffalo North Campus Confocal Imaging Facility BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Scientists seeking to unlock the secrets...
‘Flamingo:’ High-powered microscopy coming to a scientist near you
Credit: Jan Huisken Modern microscopy has given scientists a front-row seat to living, breathing biology in all its technicolor glory....
Princeton chemists teach an enzyme a new trick, with potential for building new molecules
Credit: C. Todd Reichart, Department of Chemistry Princeton chemists have found a way to make a naturally occurring enzyme take...
Turning a phage
Credit: UC San Diego Health With microbial resistance to antibiotics growing into a major global health crisis, researchers at University...
Higher body fat linked to lower breast cancer risk in younger women
CHAPEL Hill - While obesity has been shown to increase breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women, a large-scale study co-led...
Our intestinal microbiome influences metabolism — through the immune system
Credit: Adam Wong, PhD. Modified from Disease Models & Mechanisms. doi: 10.1242/dmm.023408. Research tells us that the commensal or "good"...
Prellis Biologics achieves milestone in 3D printing of human tissue with capillaries
Credit: Prellis Biologics San Francisco, CA--June 21, 2018--Prellis Biologics, a San Francisco-based 3D tissue printing company, announced that it has...
ASH to collaborate on clinical practice guidelines on von Willebrand Disease
(WASHINGTON - June 21, 2018) The American Society of Hematology (ASH) will collaborate with the International Society on Thrombosis and...
Warren Alpert Foundation honors pioneering discoveries in cystic fibrosis
The 2018 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for transformative discoveries in the fields of genetics,...
Device may detect heart dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors treated with chemo
Bottom Line: A wireless device designed for detection of heart dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors treated with anthracycline chemotherapy was...
Scientists discover new gene expression mechanism with possible role in human disease
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga, UNC Health Care CHAPEL HILL, NC - When cells grow and divide to ensure a biological function...
