Inherited retinal degeneration can make even the most mundane tasks—like cooking, driving and walking down the sidewalk—difficult or impossible, and it can’t be cured.Credit: WVU...
Independent teams from Texas Biomedical Research Institute and the Medical College of Wisconsin have published two papers in Science Translational Medicine identifying how the only...
In the most comprehensive analysis to date, researchers found that the shapes of fingerprints—whether they are circular, wavy, or winding—are influenced by the genes responsible...
In Down syndrome, the third copy of chromosome 21 causes a reorganization of the 3D configuration of the entire genome in a key cell type...
LA JOLLA—(January 6, 2022) Professor Ronald Evans will receive $1.2 million over four years as part of a Network Grant from the Larry L. Hillblom...
LA JOLLA, CA—Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Charles River Laboratories International, Inc., are launching a new project to uncover exactly how...
Dog brains can detect speech, and show different activity patterns to a familiar and an unfamiliar language, a new brain imaging study by researchers from...
Protein assembly is essential for the formation of ordered biological structures, but imagine engineering one! This is exactly what researchers at Tokyo Tech have now...
HANOVER, N.H. – January 5, 2022 – Evidence arguing for a “whiff of oxygen” before the Earth’s Great Oxygenation Event 2.3 billion years ago are...
Focusing on a specific vineyard in the Chateauneuf-du-Pape region in the Southern part of France, plant pathologists spent 8 years monitoring more than 60 plants...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers in the Chemistry Division apply their knowledge of biology in conjunction with materials to improve understanding of how...
Two X chromosomes are actually one too many. Female mammalian cells hence switch off one of them – but only when the cells start to...
Colonizing Mars is no longer solely the work of science fiction but a potential future option for people who desire to live among the weightless....
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Immunologists have long been baffled by LPS, the bacterial lipopolysaccharide that helps form the cell walls of Gram-negative bacteria.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala....
WASHINGTON — A new way to evaluate the quality of kidneys before transplantation could one day help increase the number of usable donor kidneys. The...
