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Inflammatory factors cause damage to back of eye following keratoprosthesis implantation
BOSTON – Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School have identified inflammatory factors that cause optic neuropathy in the...
A key gene in the development of celiac disease has been found in ‘junk’ DNA
Credit: A. Castellanos Coeliac disease is a chronic, immunological disease that is manifested as intolerance to gluten proteins present in...
Scientists discover how Chinese medicinal plant makes anti-cancer compound
Credit: Qing Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences New research led by Professor Cathie Martin of the John Innes Centre has...
Is a popular painkiller hampering our ability to notice errors?
It’s been known for more than a century that acetaminophen is an effective painkiller, but according to a new U...
A newly discovered way for cells to die
Some cells are meant to live, and some are meant to die. The linker cell of Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny...
Application of novel alignment-free sequence descriptors in Zika virus characterization
The recent epidemic of Zika virus infections in South and Latin America has raised serious concerns on its ramifications for...
Zika virus may now be tied to another brain disease
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – The Zika virus may be associated with an autoimmune disorder that attacks the brain’s myelin similar...
Cell density remains constant as brain shrinks with age
New, ultra-high-field magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the brain by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago provide the...
To be sperm, or not to be sperm?
Researchers in Japan have found, for the first time in vertebrates, a genetic switch that determines whether germ cells become...
Scientists find genetic basis of brain networks seen in imaging studies
A new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine found that synchronized physiological interactions between remote brain...
Mini breasts grown in petri dishes for cancer research
The research group, led by Dr. Christina Scheel, developed an assay whereby cultured human breast epithelial cells rebuild the three-dimensional...
Designing better medical implants
Biomedical devices that can be implanted in the body for drug delivery, tissue engineering, or sensing can help improve treatment...
Scientists discover bacterial cause behind fatal heart complications
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major human pathogen and is known to be associated with increased risk of fatal heart complications...
Brain learning simulated via electronic replica memory
New study: New way of controlling electronic systems endowed with a memory can provide insights into the way associative memories...
Seeing gender
How do primates, including humans, tell faces apart? Scientists have long attributed this ability to so-called “face-detector” (FD) neurons, thought...
3D-print synthetic spider webs
Spider silk has long been noted for its graceful structure, as well as its advanced material properties: Ounce for ounce,...
First Warm-Blooded Fish Discovered
New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed the opah, or moonfish, as the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated...
A Nano-transistor Assesses Your Health Via Sweat
Imagine that it is possible, through a tiny adhesive electronic stamp attached to the arm, to know in real time...
Soft-tissue engineering for hard-working cartilage
Focusing on the difficult case of restoring cartilage, which requires both flexibility and mechanical strength, the researchers investigated a new...
‘Hydrogels’ boost ability of stem cells to restore eyesight and heal brains
Scientists and engineers have made a breakthrough in cell transplantation using a gel-like biomaterial that keeps cells alive and helps...