New Yale Study Shows Paraoxonase 2 Facilitates Pancreatic Cancer Growth
New research from Yale University reveals that pancreatic cancer cells use glucose to survive and also to spread to other organs. Pancreatic cancer is a…
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Yale Study Shows PUM1 and PUM2 Help Older Brains Gain New Cells
Study Shows Increased Functional DNA in Mitochondria Cures Male Infertility
Study Shows Lysosomes Greatly Accelerate Formation of Amyloid Plaques
Researchers Identify a Prehistoric Sea Creature That Once Patrolled the Ocean Floor
“Mini-Brains” Shed Light on How Imbalances Contribute to Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Harvard Study Offers New Insight on Height and Arthritis
Yale Study Examines Evolutionary Cradle for Antarctica Marine Life
Yale Biologists Discover What Causes Asymmetry in Plants
FLARE Technique Provides Snapshots of Neuron Activity
Researchers from MIT and Stanford have developed a way to label neurons when they become active, essentially providing a snapshot of their activity at a…
Scientists Discover Mussels and Sponges Thrive on Oil with the Help of Symbiont Bacteria
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have discovered deep-sea animals living in symbiosis with bacteria that use oil as an energy source…
WebKnossos: An Annotation Tool for 3D Electron Microscopic Data
Researchers have developed reconstruction software that allows them to fly through the brain tissue at unprecedented speed, gaining an about 10-fold speedup for data analysis…
A Possible New Treatment for Baldness, Regulatory T Cells Facilitate Hair Growth
Researchers reveal that regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell generally associated with controlling inflammation, directly trigger stem cells in the skin to promote…
Yale Researchers Shed Light on Binge-Eating
New research from Yale University shows that activating neurons in an area of the brain not previously associated with feeding can produce binge-eating behavior in…
Researchers Use Human Stem Cells to Create Model of the Human Kidney Glomerulus
A team of researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed an in vitro model of the human kidney glomerulus, which could…
MIT Biologists Discover Key Step in Lung Cancer Evolution
A team of researchers from MIT has discovered a major switch that occurs as adenomas transition to adenocarcinomas in lung cancer. They’ve also discovered that…
New Yale Study Pinpoints Key Pathway in Inflammation and Aging
A newly published study from Yale University details the critical role IL-10 plays in controlling inflammation and the possible implications for preventing or treating cell…
Yale Researchers Stop Sugar-Craving in Fruit Flies
Working with fruit flies, researchers from Yale University have discovered ways to blunt the craving for sugar. A single pair of neurons in the throat…