PHILADELPHIA – Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common genetically inherited cause of intellectual disability in humans. New research shows how the hormone insulin...
Credit: Allen Institute The Allen Institute for Brain Science has announced major updates to its online resources available at brain-map.org, including a new resource on...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A series of tests physicians routinely order to help diagnose and follow their patients with an elevated antibody level that is a...
Credit: CDC Each year, norovirus causes over 200,000 deaths and a global economic burden of $60 billion. A highly contagious virus that most people will...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Two existing chemotherapy drugs appear to be a powerful pair in targeting errant stem cells that are making breast cancer and enabling...
In a study of 36 women – 16 diagnosed with ovarian cancer and a control group of 20 with no cancer diagnosis – nearly all...
LA JOLLA, CA–Follicular helper T cells (Tfh cells), a rare type of T cells, are indispensable for the maturation of antibody-producing B cells. They promote...
Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Structural biologists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and Janelia Research Campus/HHMI, have obtained snapshots of the activation of an...
LA JOLLA — (May 02, 2016) When tweaking its architecture, the adult brain works like a sculptor — starting with more than it needs so...
The largest-ever study to sequence the whole genomes of breast cancers has uncovered five new genes associated with the disease and 13 new mutational signatures...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Only a few cells in a cancerous tumor are able to break away and spread to other parts of the body, but...
Tasting food relies on food volatiles moving from the back of the mouth to the nasal cavity, but researchers have wondered why airflow doesn't carry...
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a one-step, facile method to pattern graphene by using stencil mask and oxygen plasma reactive-ion...
A team of MIT neuroscientists has found that some computer programs can identify the objects in these images just as well as the primate brain....
IMAGE: Paul Chiarot, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Binghamton University, recently received a five-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's most prestigio..
