Harvard Study Offers New Insight on Height and Arthritis
New research reveals a genetic “switch” that changes the activity of a key skeletal gene related to height, and pinpoints a variant in the switch…
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Yale Study Examines Evolutionary Cradle for Antarctica Marine Life
Yale Biologists Discover What Causes Asymmetry in Plants
FLARE Technique Provides Snapshots of Neuron Activity
Scientists Discover Mussels and Sponges Thrive on Oil with the Help of Symbiont Bacteria
WebKnossos: An Annotation Tool for 3D Electron Microscopic Data
A Possible New Treatment for Baldness, Regulatory T Cells Facilitate Hair Growth
Yale Researchers Shed Light on Binge-Eating
Researchers Use Human Stem Cells to Create Model of the Human Kidney Glomerulus
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…
Glass Brain Gives Researchers a Window Into the Mind (Video)
In these short videos, researchers use a glass brain and pulses of light to show how information flows between different regions of the brain. The…
Harvard Researchers Reveal Evidence That ALS and SMA Could be Treated With a Common Drug
Scientists from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have identified a compound that helps protect the cells destroyed by spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the most frequent…
RNA Molecule miR-22 Regulates Weight Loss in Male Mice
New research reveals that the RNA molecule miR-22 controls the oestrogen receptor in male mice. Muscles consume a large part of the body’s energy. Hence…
MIT Neuroscientists Challenge Standard Model of Memory Consolidation
New research from MIT reveals that memories are formed simultaneously in the hippocampus and the long-term storage location in the brain’s cortex. When we visit…
Scientists Reveal Important Characteristics of the Motion Detector in the Fruit Fly Brain
New research from scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology shows how the brain extracts this essential motion information, revealing the cells that enable…
Scientists Reveal Four Genes Linked to Cystic Diseases of the Kidney and Liver
New research from Yale University reveals four genes linked to cystic diseases of the liver and kidney. These findings provide a more complete definition of…