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ANN ARBOR -- Researchers at the University of Michigan have had initial success in mice using nanodiscs to deliver a customized therapeutic vaccine for the...

Tens of millions of ash trees across Europe are dying from the Hymenoscyphus fraxinea fungus - the most visible signs that a tree is infected...

DURHAM, N.C. - Duke Health researchers have identified a drug-like small molecule that, in animal experiments, appears to be an effective treatment for a genetic...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine HOUSTON - (Dec. 26, 2016) - Scientists have discovered that networks of inhibitory brain cells or neurons develop through a...

Drugs capable of activating silenced genes improve survival and growth outcomes in a mouse model of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a rare and incurable childhood disease,...

Cancer cells spread to other sites in the body through promoting the growth of new 'roads' to travel on. In a study to be published...

Credit: University of York Researchers at the University of York have identified genetic markers for disease tolerance that suggest UK ash trees may have a...

Ash trees which can resist the killer dieback fungus may be more vulnerable to attacks by insects, according to new research. Scientists from the universities...

Menlo Park, Calif. -- Scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a way to use diamondoids -...

BOSTON - Scientific research over the past decade has concentrated almost exclusively on the 2 percent of the genome's protein coding regions, virtually ignoring the...

Credit: Navin Pokala The human brain, the most complex object in the universe, has 86 billion neurons with trillions of yet-unmapped connections. Understanding how it...

Credit: Alice Harvey, NC State University Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and First Affiliated Hospital of...

Credit: Zach Portman/Utah State University LOGAN, UTAH, USA - Though declines in bee populations have heightened awareness of the importance of pollinating insects to the...

Credit: Roossinck Lab, Penn State A newly discovered virus infecting the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats could help scientists and wildlife agencies track...

The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the speakers for the Future of Biophysics Burroughs Wellcome Fund Symposium. Now in its eighth year and supported...