Newly Designed Transcription Factors Can Bind to DNA and Turn on Specific Genes
A new study from MIT and Boston University scientists describes a new method of using zinc fingers to design transcription factors for nonbacterial cells and…
A new study from MIT and Boston University scientists describes a new method of using zinc fingers to design transcription factors for nonbacterial cells and…
Newly published research details how a team of scientists discovered ITD-1, a molecule with many therapeutic possibilities that can be used to generate unlimited numbers…
Newly published research from scientists at Max Planck Institute suggests that plants choose to allow certain species of bacteria access to the roots, providing the…
A newly published study from neuroscientists at Washington University in St. Louis provides evidence that neural connections between the lateral prefrontal cortex and the rest…
Using exome sequencing, a team of scientists has discovered the human gene that causes a relatively rare but devastating type of early-onset blindness, providing an…
A newly published study from the University of North Carolina found that the drug vorinostat, a deacetylase inhibitor that is used to treat some types…
By using optogenetics, a new study from a team of scientists is one of the first to use light to regulate metabolic activity in the…
Using DNA sequencing technologies to examine 147 melanomas originating from both sun-exposed and sun-shielded sites, a team of scientists at the Yale Cancer Center has…
By comparing the brain activity during a lucid dream with the activity measured in a normal dream, scientists at the Max Planck Institute were able…
A team of researchers at Yale University has identified a molecular signal that allows potentially therapeutic proteins to hitch a ride into cells using vesicles,…
A new study from scientists at Columbia University Medical Center pinpoints the genetic cause of glioblastoma and found that drugs that target the protein produced…
A newly published study from scientists at MIT describes their discovery of a bacterial gene that may explain the sudden influx of methane-eating bacteria at…
By analyzing the amino acids in meteorites, NASA and University scientists have developed one possible explanation for why all known life uses only left-handed versions…
A newly published study by Cornell scientists details how they examined insect species that feed on plants containing powerful toxins called cardenolides to better under…
After thoroughly studying jellyfish propulsion, including the arrangement of their muscles, how their bodies contract and recoil, and how fluid-dynamic effects help or hinder their…
A new genome-scale analysis to characterize somatic alterations in colorectal carcinoma is the largest analysis of its kind, involving more than 150 researchers at dozens…
Using data from more than 900 scientific papers, a team of Stanford researchers produced the first whole-cell computational model of the life cycle of the…
A new study from scientists at Stanford University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium reveals scientific evidence suggesting that marine reserves enhance resilience to climatic impacts,…