Tag: Biology

$250,000 in Vilcek Foundation Prizes awarded to Angelika Amon, Amit Choudhary, Jeanne T. Paz, and Mikhail G. Shapiro The Vilcek ...

Improving the body's ability to fight cancer and intruders

New methods for understanding the immune system and how to boost itCredit: National Institutes of Health The human body's immune ...

Mosaic-like gene deletion and duplication pattern shaping the immune system discovered

The field of genetic sequencing has undergone a dramatic revolution over the past 20 years. In 2001 the first copy ...

Folliculin mutations disrupt embryo implantation

Folliculin gene defects are implicated in some forms of infertility, certain cancers and other cell growth disordersCredit: Jennifer Hesson New ...

Why your kid's strep throat keeps coming back

A combination of genetic and immunological factors makes some children susceptible to the bacteria that cause strep throatCredit: Dr. Yu ...

Microbial manufacturing

Study unravels how microbes produce key compound used to fight cancer For decades, scientists and doctors have known that bacteria ...

Male Y chromosomes not 'genetic wastelands'

When researchers say they have sequenced the human genome, there is a caveat to this statement: a lot of the ...

OU study finds insects crave salt and search grasslands for the limiting nutrient

Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma team from the Geographical Ecology Group has published a new study in ...

A very small number of crops are dominating globally. That's bad news for sustainable agriculture

Four crops alone comprise close to 50 per cent of all crops grown globallyCredit: University of Toronto Scarborough A new ...

How does the Amazon rain forest cope with drought?

EAST LANSING, Mich. - The Amazon rain forest isn't necessarily a place that many would associate with a drought, yet ...

Study confirms beaked whales' incredible diving abilities

Cuvier's beaked whales go a mile deep, hold breath for an hourCredit: Andrew J. Read DURHAM, N.C. -- A new ...

An elegant mechanism

Credit: Photo: Working groups Becker and Pfanner The research labs of the associate professor Dr. Thomas Becker and Prof. Dr. ...

Researchers investigate a billion years of coexistence between plants and fungi

Credit: Tom Wieboldt What can a billion years of coexistence tell us about the evolution of plants and fungi? Neither ...

Research explains how snakes lost their limbs

The study is part of an effort to understand how changes in the genome lead to changes in phenotypes Snakes ...

How one gene in a tiny fish may alter an aquatic ecosystem

Linking genomics to evolution to ecology, the work takes an unusual approach to reveal broad implications of how species adapt ...

Escort service: The role of immune cells in the formation of metastases

Credit: University of Basel Tumor cells use a certain type of immune cells, the so-called neutrophils, to enhance their ability ...

A hidden route for fatty acids can make cancers resistant to therapy

Fatty acid metabolism is an essential process in tumor growth and proliferation. Despite different attempts to block fatty acid metabolism ...

Nullifying protein YTHDF1 enhances anti-tumor response

Power of cancer immunotherapy expanded by improved antigen presentation Cancer immunotherapy--an approach that removes the barriers that protect cancer cells ...

How fibrosis develops in butterfly syndrome patients

Jefferson researchers discover potential therapy for major disease symptom PHILADELPHIA - Children with a grave skin disorder known as butterfly ...

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