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Stretchy Electrodes Enable Long-Lasting Brain Implants
If you need a piece of hardware attached to the delicate tissue of your brain or spinal cord, wouldn’t it...
Researchers uncover key cancer-promoting gene
One of the mysteries in cancer biology is how one protein, TGF-beta, can both stop cancer from forming and encourage...
Neuroscientists Get Better Feeling About Touch
Our sense of touch is one we often take for granted, until our leg falls asleep and we aren't able...
Drug Enhances Brain Signaling by Factor of 1,000
Proteins play a fundamental role in almost all biological processes. They consist of chains composed of up to 20 different...
Skin Microbes Trigger Specific Immune Responses
New research in mice shows that the immune system in the skin develops distinct responses to the various microbes that...
How bacteria control their size
By monitoring thousands of individual bacteria scientists discovered how they maintain their size from generation to generation Scientists have traditionally...
Random Mutations: Predominant Role in Cancer
Scientists from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have created a statistical model that measures the proportion of cancer incidence,...
Patterns of RNA Regulation in the Nuclei of Plants
When the human genome was first sequenced, experts predicted they would find about 100,000 genes. The actual number has turned...
Using light to produce natural sleep patterns
Getting enough of the right kind of sleep is crucial for keeping both body and mind healthy. Now a team...
World’s First Human X-Ray 1895 Röntgen’s wife hand
The discovery of a new and mysterious form of radiation in the late 19th century led to a revolution in...
Cancer treatment potential discovered in gene repair mechanism
Case Western Reserve researchers have identified a two-pronged therapeutic approach that shows great potential for weakening and then defeating cancer...
Molecular network identified underlying autism spectrum disorders
Researchers in the United States have identified a molecular network that comprises many of the genes previously shown to contribute...
Reprogramming stem cells may prevent cancer after radiation
The body has evolved ways to get rid of faulty stem cells. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published...
Scientists create precursors to human egg and sperm
Scientists at the University of Cambridge working with the Weizmann Institute have created primordial germ cells – cells that will...
Immune system may play role in obesity
Scientists had known that the immune cells may help ward off obesity in mice. The new findings are the first...
Optogenetics captures neuronal transmission in live mammalian brain
Swiss scientists have used a cutting-edge method to stimulate neurons with light. They have successfully recorded synaptic transmission between neurons...
In Search of the Origin of Our Brain
Researchers show that nerve cell centralisation does begin in multicellular animals. While searching for the origin of our brain, biologists...
Researchers shed light on how ‘microbial dark matter’ might cause disease
One of the great recent discoveries in modern biology was that the human body contains 10 times more bacterial cells...
Cells ‘feel’ their surroundings using finger-like structures
Cells have finger-like projections that they use to feel their surroundings. They can detect the chemical environment and they can...
Bioengineering stem cells shows promise in HIV resistance
Using modified human stem cells, a team of UC Davis scientists has developed an improved gene therapy strategy that in...