Sonic Advance: How High-Frequency Sound Waves Could Help Regrow Bones
Researchers have used sound waves to turn stem cells into bone cells, in a tissue engineering advance that could one day help patients regrow bone…
Researchers have used sound waves to turn stem cells into bone cells, in a tissue engineering advance that could one day help patients regrow bone…
Boa constrictors breathe with different sections of rib cage when constricting prey and digesting dinner. The later stages of pregnancy can make life difficult as…
Technique allows researchers to toggle on individual genes that regulate cell growth, development, and function. By combining CRISPR technology with a protein designed with artificial…
The finding that some genes are active from the get-go challenges the textbook view that genes don’t become active in human embryos until they are…
Scientists from UNSW Sydney have uncovered the secrets locked in the jawlines of humpback and southern right whales. Baleen plates – the signature bristle-like apparatus…
Deep-sea microbe provides rich source of medically potent drugs. Years of toil in the laboratory have revealed how a marine bacterium makes a potent anti-cancer…
Defective mitochondria – the ‘batteries’ that power the cells of our bodies – could in the future be repaired using gene-editing techniques. Scientists at the…
Controlling how cells grow is fundamental to ensuring proper brain development and stopping aggressive brain tumors. The network of molecules that control brain cell growth is…
Brain cells known as astrocytes play a prominent part in tuning the changes in neuronal activity that enable memories to be stored. RIKEN neuroscientists have…
Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up as…
New study is first anatomical evidence for how two major groups of bats use echolocation differently. Two major groups of bats that use echolocation have…
Experiment sheds light on the molecular evolution of RNA. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have for the first time been able to create an…
LJI team uncovers how one odd antibody does some heavy lifting. Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) are designing better therapies for treating Ebola virus…
The synaptic pruning of newborn neurons by microglia depends on phosphatidylserine in the adult brain. This mechanism is essential for the maturation of newborn neurons….
Findings will encourage more data sharing, collaboration among researchers. As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to…
Tree ring analyses reveal growth declines over recent decades / Researchers expect further, even drastic declines, especially in southern Europe. Beech forests in Europe are…
Chemicals used as bait to trap and track so-called ‘murder hornets’ as they expand their footprint in the Western United States. The world’s largest hornet…
Description of exceptionally preserved fossil pushes back age of Vampyropoda by nearly 82 million years. New research led by scientists at the American Museum of…