Mysterious protein-folding molecule could trigger metabolic disorders
Credit: Illustration provided courtesy of Dr. Feng Hong of the Medical University of South Carolina. The cell's response to unfolded or misfolded proteins could be...
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Ketone nutritional supplements: Good or bad for athletic performance?
Credit: UBC Okanagan In the quest to improve physical performance, many athletes are turning to untested nutritional supplements. But in the case of one recently...
Newly revealed amino acid function could be used to boost antioxidant levels
Credit: Kobe University A Japanese research team has become the first in the world to discover that 2-aminobutyric acid (2-AB) is closely involved in the...
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...
Scientists reveal herbal remedies containing aristolochic acid may…
Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Scientists from Singapore and Taiwan have revealed a decisive link between Aristolochic Acids (AA), a natural product of some plants used...
Calcium lets T cells use sugar to multiply and fight infection
6 A calcium signal controls whether immune cells can use the nutrients needed to fuel their multiplication into a cellular army designed to fight invading...
A little myelin goes a long way to restore nervous system function
Credit: Submitted MADISON, Wisconsin – In the central nervous system of humans and all other mammals, a vital insulating sheath composed of lipids and proteins...
Creative approach to probing genome IDs genes that likely influence…
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System In an important step in the battle against osteoporosis, a serious brittle bone disease that affects millions, researchers...
New test rapidly diagnoses Zika
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA — MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection within 20 minutes. Unlike existing...
Scientists ID human protein essential for human cytomegalovirus replication
Credit: Lin Y-T, et al. (2017) Scientists have demonstrated that a human protein known as valosin containing protein (VCP) is essential for replication of human...
Identification of genes controlling mouthpart development key to insect diversity
Credit: Hiroki Gotoh Nagoya, Japan – Insects are a biological success story with their high abundance, dominating biodiversity, and almost worldwide distribution. Their evolutionary prowess...
Alzheimer’s may be a collection of diseases that should be…
Deciphering the mechanism that underlies the development of Alzheimer's disease in certain families but not in others, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty...
Rosalind Franklin University awarded NIH grant for research on neurological repair
Credit: Rosalind Franklin University A $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help researchers at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and...
McGill announces Dr. Thomas Robinson 2016 winner of the Bloomberg Manulife Prize
Credit: McGill University McGill University, in association with Lawrence and Frances Bloomberg and Manulife, is pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas Robinson, a Stanford University...
Small-cell lung cancer patients face barriers to receiving…
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Despite decades of clinical research establishing chemotherapy with thoracic radiation as the standard-of-care for the initial management of non-metastatic small-cel..