Babies’ spatial reasoning predicts later math skills
Babies’ spatial reasoning predicts later math skills Credit: Photo by Emory UniversitySpatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years...
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TERRA, the RNAs that protect telomeres
In murine cells TERRA is transcribed mainly from chromosome 18 and in a less way from chromosome 9, in a similar manner we found that...
New findings detail how beneficial bacteria in the nose suppress pathogenic bacteria
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., August 17, 2016 –Staphylococcus aureus is a common colonizer of the human body. Although, one quarter of the U.S. population live with the...
Down to the wire: ONR researchers and new bacteria
ARLINGTON, Va.–Scientists sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have genetically modified a common soil bacteria to create electrical wires that not only conduct...
Cellular snowplow keeps genes open
EAST LANSING, Mich. — A new discovery at Michigan State University has revealed how special genes stay open for business, helping diagram a mechanism that...
Scientists find a salty way to kill MRSA
Staphylococcus aureus bacteria Credits: Imperial College London Scientists have discovered a new way to attack Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. The team, from Imperial College London, have...
Study suggests ways to block hypertension in those with sleep apnea
Nanduri Prabhakar, PhD, director of the Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology of Oxygen Sensing at the University of Chicago Obstructive sleep...
Potential therapeutic target for Huntington’s disease
Credits: yourgenome.org There is new hope in the fight against Huntington’s disease. Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered that changing a specific part of the...
Chronic pain linked to partners of people with depression
Partners of people with depression are more likely to suffer from chronic pain, research has found. The study shows that the two conditions share common...
Max Planck Florida’s Sunposium 2017 Neural Circuits Conference
Once again, several of the world’s most esteemed neuroscience researchers will gather in Palm Beach County to speak at the Max Planck Florida Institute for...
Faculty at MIT and beyond respond forcefully to an article critical of Suzanne Corkin
On August 7, 2016, the New York Times Magazine published “The Brain That Couldn’t Remember,” an article adapted from the forthcoming book “Patient H.M.: A...
New method opens up the possibility of customizing breast milk for premature children
About 7 percent of all Danish children are born prematurely. This is of significant im-portance not only to the child’s development, but it also affects...
Researchers have developed a new class of artificial proteins
In the journal, Nature Communications, a team of Danish researchers reports that they have developed a new class of artificial proteins. In the long term,...
Could suppression of Gαq/11 signaling be a promising target for treating bone loss?
Intermittent parathyroid hormone treatment (iPTH) and mechanical loading through exercise have both been shown to stimulate bone formation. These osteoanabolic stimuli are partially mediated by...
New breakthrough in understanding dystonia
Researchers at VIB-KU Leuven have managed to get a clearer view on the roots of dystonia, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary twisting movements. Led...