Ikoma, Japan—DNA methylation is a major epigenetic modification that is crucial for mammalian development. For instance, DNA methylation is central to inexhaustible biological processes, such...
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have obtained atomic-level insights into the structure of the phosphoketolase enzyme, which will help researchers optimize this enzyme for...
Osaka, Japan – Many people have experienced the struggles of dealing with low back pain. A common cause of this pain is degeneration of intervertebral...
The brain is inarguably the single most important organ in the human body. It controls how we move, react, think and feel, and enables us...
From the muscle fibers that move us to the enzymes that replicate our DNA, proteins are the molecular machinery that makes life possible.Credit: (Photo: Jess...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – In a work of systematic biology that advances the field, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have identified 16 distinct cell populations...
Scientists want to increase their understanding of circadian rhythms, those internal 24-hour biological clock cycles of sleeping and waking that occur in organisms, ranging from...
Gut microbiota by-products circulate in the bloodstream, regulating host physiological processes including immunity, metabolism and brain functions. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur (a partner research...
How does a cell “decide” what type of cell to become? The question of “cell fate” has been explored for decades now, especially in the...
Inhibiting an important signaling pathway in brain-resident immune cells may calm brain inflammation and thereby slow the disease process in Alzheimer’s and some other neurodegenerative...
Hamilton, ON (April 14, 2022) – A study at McMaster University has found that brown adipose tissue (BAT) is less active in boys with obesity...
In 2019, a landmark report gave the world its first report card on biodiversity loss. There was one crystal clear conclusion: human actions threaten more...
HOUSTON ― Combining a retrospective analysis of clinical records with in-depth laboratory studies, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered...
The first large-scale study of its kind has uncovered more than 4,000 years’ worth of distinctive foraging behaviour in a species once driven to the...
In patients with familial adenomatous polyposis, a genetic disease predisposing to colon cancer, mutations of the APC gene induce the formation of intestinal polyps, but...
