Manipulating cells’ shapes could treat breast cancer
Changing the shape of breast cancer cells could make the disease more sensitive to treatments - even driving the body's own inflammatory response against a...
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Neuroscientists identify new way several brain areas communicate
Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have identified a new pathway by which several brain areas communicate within the brain’s striatum. Published in the Journal of Neuroscience,...
People use handshakes to sniff each other out
Limp or firm, your handshake conveys subliminal social cues. Now, research reveals it also transmits chemical signals that could explain why the greeting evolved in...
New target identified in fight against Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis
Highlighting a potential target in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests that triggering a protein found on the surface...
Brain’s GPS never stops working
Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have found that navigational brain cells that help sense direction are as electrically active during deep sleep as they...
Scientists crack piece of neural code for learning
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: researchers slice a brain into thin little sections and, just by measuring the properties of specific neurons,...
BPA exposure linked to autism spectrum disorder
A newly published study is the first to report an association between bisphenol-A (BPA), a common plasticizer used in a variety of consumer food and...
Democratizing synthetic biology
Protein engineering is the crucial pulse of the booming, relatively new scientific discipline. Scientists grow, harvest, and reprogram proteins to become new drug therapeutics, environmentally...
Sizing up cells: Study finds possible regulator of growth
Modern biology has attained deep knowledge of how cells work, but the mechanisms by which cellular structures assemble and grow to the right size largely...
Genetically speaking, mammals are more like their fathers
You might resemble or act more like your mother, but a novel research study reveals that mammals are genetically more like their dads. Specifically, the...
Whales Inspire New Fluid Sensor
How can a humpback whale and a device that works on the same principle as the clicker that starts your gas grill help an unmanned...
How our microbes make us who we are
Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that have a huge — and...
Bumblebees make false memories too
It's well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also "remember" things incorrectly, with devastating consequences...
3-D printing offers innovative method to deliver medication
3-D printing could become a powerful tool in customizing interventional radiology treatments to individual patient needs, with clinicians having the ability to construct devices to...
New Treatment Breaks Migraine Cycle
An innovative interventional radiology treatment has been found to offer chronic migraine sufferers sustained relief of their headaches, according to new research. Clinicians have used...