Researchers Use Microfluidic Device to Monitor Sickle Cell Disease
By measuring how well blood samples flow through a microfluidic device, researchers at Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have…
By measuring how well blood samples flow through a microfluidic device, researchers at Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have…
Researchers were able to reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice by blocking the enzyme known as HDAC2. With the number of worldwide Alzheimer’s victims expected to…
Researchers at UCLA have shown that people with depression have increased connections among most brain areas. While studying the functional connections of the brain in…
A new study from UCLA showed that people with low levels of omega-3 fatty acids in their red blood cells scored lower on tests of…
To better understand the underlying biology of induced magnetization, researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School…
A new study suggests that the stem cells located in human ovaries might be able to produce new eggs. The findings were published in the…
A bacterial gene that has been discovered in the genome of the coffee berry borer beetle (Hypothenemus hampei) allows it to occupy a unique ecological…
A new study published in the journal Nature Methods, shows that a novel local anesthetic developed by a group of researchers at UC Berkeley, University…
It’s been reported that the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, drinks alcohol to kill the wasps that have hatched inside of its body, which would…
Many creatures in the sea glow in the depths of the deepest trenches of the oceans. Bioluminescence is even observed in some marine bacteria, which…
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the California Institute of Technology teamed up to image the T6SS system working in real-time to prove their hypothesis…
Researchers have developed a new delivery vehicle in which RNA is packed into microspheres so dense that they withstand degradation until they reach their destinations….
A member of the sirtuin family of proteins, SIRT6, has been shown to extend lifespans in mammals. Researchers studying the aging process have long been…
An entirely new family of limbless amphibians has been discovered, hiding away in the soils of northeastern India. The creatures are part of the caecilian…
Researchers at Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a region within group II chaperonins, which detects the presence of the ATP molecules…
A new study by scientists at Imperial College London, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Würzburg in Germany examined Popeye domain containing proteins…
New research shows that the approved drug Zelboraf nearly doubles the median survival time for patients with metastatic melanoma. By following 132 patients, researchers found…
The male-sex determining Y chromosome is here to stay, having lost only one gene in the last 25 million years, a new study of human…