NIH BRAIN Initiative launches cell census
The National Institutes of Health has launched a major effort to discover and catalog the brain's "parts list." The NIH's ...
No magic wand required: Scientists propose way to turn any cell into any other cell type
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In fairy tales, all it takes to transform a frog into a prince, a servant into ...
How Neanderthals influenced human genetics at the crossroads of Asia and Europe
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- When the ancestors of modern humans migrated out of Africa, they passed through the Middle East and ...
Animal models in regenerative medicine in upcoming special issue of tissue engineering
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Oct. 24, 2017 -- Novel approaches to tissue engineering and regenerative ...
UT Health San Antonio researchers define mechanism that causes kidney cancer to recur
SAN ANTONIO (Oct. 24, 2017) - New research from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT ...
Tarloxitinib puts tumor-seeking tail on anti-EGFR drug to precisely target lung cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center EGFR is a common genetic target in lung cancer, but not all EGFR mutations ...
Genetics may put a person at risk of high triglycerides, but adopting a healthy diet can help
URBANA, Ill. - Triglycerides, a type of fat in the blood, are important for good health. But having high triglycerides ...
Taste, not appearance, drives corals to eat plastics
Credit: Alex Seymour, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Scientists have long known that marine animals mistakenly eat plastic debris because ...
Identifying the mechanism for a new class of antiviral drugs could hasten their approval
Credit: Penn State New research shows that a new class of antiviral drugs works by causing the virus' replication machinery ...
Exposure to glyphosate, chemical found in weed killers, increased over 23 years
Analyzing samples from a prospective study, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers found that human exposure to ...
Study provides more clarity on the genetic causes of children’s food allergies
What role do genes play in egg, milk, and nut allergies? A study published in Nature Communications, led by the ...
Does stem cell therapy offer the best hope for neurodegenerative diseases?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Oct. 24, 2017 -- As the brain has limited capability for ...
Mysterious DNA modification seen in stress response
With advances in genomics, scientists are discovering additional components of the DNA alphabet in animals. Do these unusual chemical modifications ...
Pollutant emitted by forest fire causes DNA damage and lung cell death
When exposed in a laboratory to pollution levels comparable to those found in the atmosphere of the Amazon region during ...
‘Wing prints’ may identify individual bats as effectively as fingerprints identify people
Credit: The image was used as Figure 1 in their study, 'Bat wing biometrics: using collagen-elastin bundles in bat wings ...
Swortwood to investigate prevalence of synthetic opioids in saliva
Credit: Harriet McHale HUNTSVILLE, TX (10/24/17) -- A research team at Sam Houston State University received a $311,000 National Institute ...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation announces 2017 class of NYSCF – Robertson investigators
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) announced the 2017 class of NYSCF - Robertson Investigators, welcoming six of the ...
$65.5 million from NIH to create brain atlas
Credit: David Stafford and Rebecca Chance, UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is partnering with the Allen Institute for ...
High-speed locomotion neurons found in the brainstem
A clearly defined subpopulation of neurons in the brainstem is essential to execute locomotion at high speeds. Interestingly, these high-speed ...
New combination therapy of registered drugs shortens anti-Wolbachia therapy
Researchers from LSTM's Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics have found a way of significantly reducing the treatment required for ...
