Clarified mechanism of rotation of node cilia-principal for asymmetry of the body
IMAGE: This image shows the motion and microtubule arrangement of node cilia in the mouse embryo. Credit: Tokyo University of ...
Antibiotics pave way for C. diff infections by killing bile acid-altering bacteria
IMAGE: Thie is Clostridium difficile, or C. diff.. Credit: Renee Fox New research from North Carolina State University and the ...
India-made rotavirus vaccine achieves World Health Organization prequalification
Credit: Photo: PATH/Gabe Bienczycki PATH applauds Indian vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech for receiving prequalification from the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Mesh-like scaffold is disordered in Alzheimer’s-affected cells
IMAGE: Brain cells from a fruit fly model of Alzheimer's disease were compared to healthy brain cells to show a ...
Venom becomes more potent as brown snakes age
Credit: Stewart Macdonald The "blood nuking" capabilities of adult brown snake venom only come about after an amazing transformation. New ...
The eyes are the window into the brain
Our eyes are constantly moving, whether we notice or not. They jump from one focus point to another and even ...
NSF makes new awards to advance Science of Learning
Credit: John Consoli, University of Maryland; John C. Williams, Humanoid Engineering & Intelligent Robotics (HEIR) Lab, Marquette University; Diane Quinn; ...
‘Daedalus dilemma’ of the immune system
Credit: Copyright: kuco, Fotolia.com This news release is available in German. The dilemma of our immune system is comparable to ...
Hazardous contamination found around lead battery recycling plants in…
Credit: Occupational Knowledge International San Francisco, Jan. 18, 2018 – Extensive lead contamination was found in lead battery recycling plants ...
Drug discovery: Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s spurred by…
Credit: From Zhang et al NSMB (2017). Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are not the same. They affect different regions ...
Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel may contain hidden symbols of female anatomy
Credit: Clinical Anatomy Michelangelo often surreptitiously inserted pagan symbols into his works of art, many of them possibly associated with ...
Epilepsy drug discovered in fish model shows promise in small…
Credit: Image courtesy of Scott Baraban, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco. "Bench-to-bedside" describes research that has progressed from basic ...
UTA engineering professor to use data mining to help patients’…
Credit: UT Arlington A researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington is working to develop big data mining tools ...
New discoveries on evolution can save endangered species
Traditionally, the evolutionary development of an insect species has been explained by the notion that the female insect chooses her ...
Forsyth Institute researcher Floyd Dewhirst named as AAAS Fellow
Credit: The Forsyth Institute. Cambridge, MA – November 20, 2017 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ...
Seven research teams receive Intermountain-Stanford grant award
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Stanford Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare have announced the recipients of more than $500,000 in seed grants focused ...
Control mechanism unveiled for gene that causes Opitz syndrome
Credit: Kobe University Opitz G/BBB (Opitz) syndrome is a hereditary disorder that affects people in different ways, causing malformations in ...
SMART: Facial recognition for molecular structures
Credit: Chen Zhang, Bill Gerwick An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has developed a ...
‘Vampires’ may have been real people with this blood disorder
Porphyrias, a group of eight known blood disorders, affect the body’s molecular machinery for making heme, which is a component ...
Changes in the vascular system may trigger Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Laboratory of Neurobiology and Genetics at The Rockefeller University/Blood As the average age of Americans increases, so too does ...
