The eye is not immune to immunity
Credit: Sue Menko, Thomas Jefferson University (PHILADELPHIA) — A person needs immune-suppressive drugs for organ transplants but not typically for ...
Gene therapy with BMP4 protects against weight gain and insulin resistance in mice
Credit: Photo: Michael Frietsch "By increasing BMP4, we can increase the metabolic rate, but we only see this in initially ...
Live-imaging technique for mice seen as boost to studies of brain…
EUGENE, Ore. — University of Oregon scientists have looked into the brains of living mice to see in real time ...
The bright side of an infectious protein
Credit: MPI-CBG Prions are self-propagating protein aggregates that can be transmitted between cells. The aggregates are associated with human diseases. ...
Cholesterol-fighting drugs lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: USC Schaeffer Center Common anti-cholesterol drugs show promise for reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease, a University of Southern ...
UMass Amherst neuroscientist receives $2.64 million from NIH for…
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Neuroscientist Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a five-year, $2.64 ...
Hearing with your eyes — a Western style of speech perception
Credit: Dr. Kaoru Sekiyama Which parts of a person's face do you look at when you listen them speak? Lip ...
Mechanism of familial Parkinson’s disease clarified in fruit fly model
Credit: Tohoku University Osaka – Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, with up to 10 million ...
Latest research reveals sitting in traffic jams is officially bad for…
With millions of motorists set to hit the road for the bank holiday weekend, drivers have been urged to close ...
University of Maryland orthopaedic surgeons to receive international…
Credit: University of Maryland School of Medicine BALTIMORE – Nov. 30, 2017. A research team led by Mohit N. Gilotra, ...
Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time,…
Credit: L.A. Cicero When we are in a deep slumber our brain's activity ebbs and flows in big, obvious waves, ...
INNUENDO — a new platform for genomics integration in surveillance of food-borne…
IMAGE: The project coordinator, Assistant Professor Mirko Rossi is in the back. In front, from the left are Docent Janne ...
Salk scientists adapt computer program to gauge eye spasm severity
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — If two clinicians observe the same patient with blepharospasm — uncontrollable muscle contractions around ...
‘Beiging’ white fat cells to fight diabetes
PHILADELPHIA – Researchers are getting closer to learning how to turn white fat cells into brown fat cells, in a ...
Researchers overcome obstacle for future stem cell therapies
Credit: Robert Judson and Fabio Rossi Researchers have discovered a new technique that overcomes one of the major challenges of ...
UCLA study could explain link between high-cholesterol diet and colon cancer
Credit: Tontonoz lab/UCLA New UCLA research could help explain the link between a high-cholesterol diet and an elevated risk for ...
New model may help science overcome the brain’s fortress-like…
Credit: Samah Jassam New model may help science overcome the brain's fortress-like barrier Scientists have helped provide a way to ...
The origin of snakes — new evolutionary scenario presented
Credit: University of Helsinki. The early evolution of snakes happened from surface-terrestrial to burrowing in the lizard-snake transition suggests a ...
Could a saliva test be next for lupus?
Credit: University of Houston The symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus (known as SLE or lupus) can fool you. You might ...
Ultrastructure of a condensed chromosome-like structure in a…
Credit: NIPS/NINS Researchers centered at Japan's National Institute for Physiological Sciences reveal details of the structure of compacted DNA transiently ...
