Blocking enzyme in normal cells may impede pancreatic cancer, Penn vet team shows
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Cancer of the pancreas is a deadly disease, with a median survival time of less than six months. Only one in...
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New molecule shows promise in HIV vaccine design
Credit: National Cancer Institute Researchers at the University of Maryland and Duke University have designed a novel protein-sugar vaccine candidate that, in an animal model,...
Using networks to understand tissue-specific gene regulation
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital have discerned that different tissue functions arise from a core biological machinery that is largely shared across tissues, rather...
Zika virus infects developing brain by first infecting cells meant to defend against it
Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Brazil, report that the Zika virus...
Lifestyle changes, healthier population
Obesity and high blood pressure frequently coexist in the same individual and are recognised as the main cardiovascular risk factor. The prevalence of hypertension, defined...
New study identifies mechanism bacteria use to attach to surfaces
Credit: Jingbo Kan Most of our knowledge of bacteria comes from the study of bacteria swimming around in liquid but there is a growing consensus...
Cell Biology: Cellular power outage
Protein aggregation is a hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases. Even in normal cells, such deposits can accumulate in mitochondria, blocking energy production, but a newly...
Malaria parasite in the Americas is more genetically diverse than previously thought
The populations found in the Americas of Plasmodium vivax, one of the main human malaria parasites, are as genetically diverse as those found in Southeast...
Emotional states discovered in fish
Credit: Ines Bravo, IGC. The occurrence of emotions in animals has been under debate. Now, a research team from the Centro de Ciências do Mar...
Scientists unveil the water buffalo genome
Credit: Caterina Cambuli An international team of researchers led by the University of Adelaide has published the full genome of the water buffalo - opening...
Artificial intelligence to evaluate brain maturity of preterm infants
Credit: Sampsa Vanhatalo Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University Hospital (HUH), Finland, have developed software based on machine learning, which can...
Heavy metal thunder: Protein can be switched on to conduct electricity like a metal
Credit: Weisi Song, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University When pushing the boundaries of discovery, sometimes even the most experienced of scientists can get a surprise...
Advanced artificial limbs mapped in the brain
Credit: Irit Hacmun, Tel Aviv Targeted motor and sensory reinnervation (TMSR) is a surgical procedure on patients with amputations that reroutes residual limb nerves towards...
Peatland plants adapting well to climate change, suggests study
Credit: University of Southampton They account for just three per cent of the Earth's surface but play a major role in offsetting carbon dioxide emissions...
Peat bogs defy the laws of biodiversity
Alexandre Buttler, head of EPFL's Ecological Systems Laboratory (ECOS), and Luca Bragazza, a scientist at ECOS, along with a team of European researchers including two...
