Credit: Kikkawa lab, The University of Tokyo A research team led by Masahide Kikkawa, a professor of the University of Tokyo, established zebrafish mutants of...
(Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)) Surprisingly, the functions of a huge number of microbial genes are still unknown. This knowledge gap can be...
Credit: OIST In multicellular organisms, including humans, most DNA is coiled up within the cell's nucleus. A small part, however, is tucked away within the...
Credit: Photo by Steph Adams CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In a new study in mice, researchers have identified a key protein involved in the irregular brain...
Credit: (Josh Hihath, UC Davis; Yonggang Ke, Emory University) Josh Hihath is trying to fuse biology and electrical engineering and to build new types of...
Credit: Yonggang Ke, Biomedical Engineering Department, Emory University and Georgia Tech To address a worldwide need for data storage that far outstrips today's capabilities, federal...
Credit: Courtesy, Christopher Haiman LOS ANGELES - The Keck School of Medicine of USC is leading a $26.5 million effort to conduct the first large-scale,...
Credit: University of Utah In a new study, a team led by University of Utah biologists has discovered that different versions of a single gene,...
Credit: Photo by Andrew Aman, David Parichy, University of Virginia, for the journal eLife. When sea creatures first began crawling and slithering onto land about...
A novel drug based on capsaicin, the compound that gives chili peppers their spicy burn, caused long term weight loss and improved metabolic health in...
An independent inquiry by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has concluded that editing the DNA of a human embryo, sperm, or egg to influence the...
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Inflammation and evasion of the immune system have been reported to be some of the new hallmarks of cancer. Notably,...
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- July 17, 2018 -- A tissue donation portal opened today at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), which will advance research towards...
(Boston)--Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a new potential target protein (c-Cbl) they believe can help further the understanding of colon...
A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study assesses the increased growth of secondary interpretations of diagnostic imaging examinations in the Medicare population. The...
