1. Routine genomic screening could find risks for cancer and heart disease in 3 to 4 million unsuspecting Americans Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M18-1722 URLs go live when...
Mice with pancreatic cancer that were treated with a naturally occurring constituent of medicinal cannabis alongside chemotherapy, survived almost three times longer than those treated...
Study is the largest published comparative dataset of non-human primate gut microbiomes to date Leaf-eating primates shared very few gut microbial characteristics Study is the...
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Juli Feigon, Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, its 2019...
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Raymond Stevens, Provost Professor and Director of the Bridge Institute, Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry,...
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Elizabeth Rhoades, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, as its 2019 Michael and Kate...
Credit: UMass Amherst/Patricia Wadsworth AMHERST, Mass. - When humans construct a building, it's intended to stand for many years, but in biological systems, cells routinely...
Despite high hopes and high investment in CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, scientists still have a lot to learn about how it works in humans. In the...
Credit: © Henry Weimerskirch Known since the 1960s, the colony of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Île aux Cochons, in the southern Indian Ocean, had...
Credit: Joseph Park, Ph.D., Doo Yeon Kim, Ph.D., Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., and Hansang Cho, Ph.D.; Genetics and Aging Research Unit, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative...
Credit: Limebeer et al., eNeuro (2018) A non-psychoactive compound derived from marijuana could potentially be developed into new anti-nausea treatments for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy,...
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- New research from Indiana University has identified "hotspots" in DNA where the risk for...
Credit: Roberts and Stewart. 2018. Defining the 'generalist specialist' niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens. Nature Human Behaviour. 10.1038/s41562-018-0394-4. Critical review of growing ar..
Credit: IST Austria/Ivan Kulik As the plant root grows, a root cap protects its fragile tip. Every few hours, the old cap is lost and...
Credit: Stilianos Louca, University of British Columbia. Bacteria go extinct at substantial rates, although appear to avoid the mass extinctions that have hit larger forms...
