Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - July 27, 2017 - Genes that regulate a cellular recycling system called autophagy are commonly mutated in Crohn's disease patients,...
Credit: Courtesy of Paula Niedenthal MADISON, Wis. -- The smile may be the most common and flexible expression, used to reveal some emotions, cover others...
Credit: Horng D. Ou, Salk Institute. Sixty-four years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick described the now-iconic double helix structure of DNA. In a new...
New research suggests that a man-made cousin of a small molecule found in olive oil can disrupt the hunger-signaling pathway. Researchers identified this promising new...
How can six and half feet of DNA be folded into the tiny nucleus of a cell? Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health...
Adults in the UK who have poor sleep patterns are more likely to be overweight and obese and have poorer metabolic health, according to a...
(Van Andel Research Institute) The findings, published today in Cell, reveal for the first time components of a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) named rhodopsin bound...
Immigrants who came to the United States illegally as small children and who meet the requirements of the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors...
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Every spring and fall, billions of birds migrate across the United States, largely unseen under the cover of darkness. Now...
There's a 50-hectare forested plot in Panama where researchers with the Smithsonian have gathered highly detailed information about the species, distribution, and size of trees...
Hepatitis E gets little press compared to its better-known cousins A, B and C, but Stellenbosch University virologists say we should wake up to how...
Plants are among many eukaryotes that can "turn off" one or more of their genes by using a process called RNA interference to block protein...
Why do some of us live longer than others? While the environment in which we live, including our socio-economic status or the food we eat,...
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 27, 2017 -- Researchers compared the effects of three bone growth factors to bone morphogenetic...
Credit: Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa It is a well-known fact that environmental factors such as soil texture and drainage determine to a very large degree the...
