Researchers Study Enzyme That Repairs DNA Damage from UV Rays
Biochemical ‘action shots’ with SLAC’s X-ray laser could help scientists develop synthetic enzymes for medicine and answer fundamental questions about how enzymes change during chemical…
Biochemical ‘action shots’ with SLAC’s X-ray laser could help scientists develop synthetic enzymes for medicine and answer fundamental questions about how enzymes change during chemical…
A new Yale-led study shows that thyroid hormone therapy significantly resolves fibrosis, or scarring, in the lungs of mice, increasing their survival from disease. This…
You are what you eat when it comes to fat, report scientists from McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at…
Imagine a microscopic gold pill that could travel to a specific location in your body and deliver a drug just where it is needed. This…
If current U.S. trends continue, more than 57 percent of today’s youth will be obese at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard…
By combining the use of drug-carrying nanoparticles with an organ-preserving machine, Yale researchers have developed a procedure that could help improve long-term outcomes for transplant…
Researchers demonstrate an injectable gel that slowly releases short gene sequences known as microRNAs into the heart muscle, allowing it to regenerate after injury. In…
Adele Ricciardi navigates the corridors and stairways of the Hunter Building with practiced ease. The School of Medicine has come to feel like home after…
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a fully functioning artificial human heart muscle large enough to patch over damage typically seen in patients who…
Whitehead Institute has illuminated an important role for different subtypes of muscle cells in orchestrating the process of tissue regeneration. In a paper appearing online…
Doctors have many drugs available to treat multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. However, there is no way to predict, by genetic markers or…
Cancer immunotherapy drugs have had notable but limited success because in many cases, tumors develop resistance to treatment. But researchers at Yale and Stanford have…
New research from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School suggests that gut bacteria at young age can contribute to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) disease onset and…
In a newly published study, researchers from Yale University report they have created a more precise and efficient technology to edit the genomes of living…
Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have successfully reversed type 1 diabetes in a mouse model by infusing blood stem cells pre-treated to produce more of…
Engineered tissue containing human stem cells has allowed paraplegic rats to walk independently and regain sensory perception. The implanted rats also show some degree of…
New research from MIT shows that intestinal bacteria can stop a high-salt diet from inducing inflammatory response linked to hypertension. Microbes living in your gut…
A new study from Cardiff University reveals a unique approach to targeting the abnormal T-cells that cause T-cell lymphomas and could offer hope to patients…