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

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, from Imperial College London, have...

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 University of Chicago Obstructive sleep...

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 a specific part of the...

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 the two conditions share common...

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 Max Planck Florida Institute for...

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 forthcoming book “Patient H.M.: A...

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 development, but it also affects...

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 proteins. In the long term,...

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 stimuli are partially mediated by...

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 causes involuntary twisting movements. Led...

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 receiving opioid substitution therapy according...

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 sparked an evolutionary advantage over...

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 U.S. With one in every...

Study may lead to better breast cancer drugs