New Mechanism for Human Gene Expression Discovered
In a study that could change the way scientists view the process of protein production in humans, University of Chicago researchers have found a single...
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Tiny Eye Telescope Brings Back A World Of Sight
This tiny telescope gets implanted in one eye and magnifies the image to make up for "holes" in the person's vision. It can greatly improve...
A 700.000 year old horse gets its genome sequenced
It is nothing short of a world record in DNA research that scientists at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark...
Breakthrough discovery into the regulation of a key cancer drug target
There’s not much difference between what makes a man and what makes his beer - at least at the molecular level - according to a...
Fetus donates stem cells to heal mother’s heart
Mouse fetuses will give up stem cells to repair their mother's heart. The discovery could explain why half the women who develop heart weakness during...
A ‘Memory Machine’ Is Being Tested In Humans
Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California is developing a prosthesis to restore memory, by replacing a circuit in the brain's hippocampus. Berger described...
Mimicking Living Cells: Synthesizing Ribosomes
Synthetic biology researchers at Northwestern University, working with partners at Harvard Medical School, have for the first time synthesized ribosomes – cell structures responsible for...