A University of Toronto (U of T) study on fruit flies has uncovered a gene that could play a key role in obesity in humans.
The paper published online this month in Genetics examines a "foraging gene" humans share in...
A genetically-modified mouse participated in the experiment.Credit:The A.N. Belozersky Institute Of Physico-Chemical Biology
Synthetic compound developed in the Moscow State University slows down aging of mice with mutating
A group of Russian and Swedish scientists just published a breakthrough paper, reporting...
A powerful Northwestern University imaging tool is the first to measure the structure of isolated chromosomes without the use of fluorescent labels. Credit: Northwestern University
Many of the secrets of cancer and other diseases lie in the cell's nucleus. But...
Researchers exposed a small intestinal cell culture model to the physiological equivalent of a meal's worth of titanium oxide nanoparticles -- 30 nanometers across -- over four hours (acute exposure), or three meal's worth over five days (chronic exposure)....
Genetics of male pattern baldness are shown. Credit: Douglas Robertson, University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology
A genomic study of baldness identified more than 200 genetic regions involved in this common but potentially embarrassing condition. These...
A nematode (the oblong object on the left) activates the vascular stem cell pathway in the developing nematode feeding site (syncytium) on a plant root. Credit: Xiaoli Guo, Division of Plant Sciences and Bond Life Sciences Center, University of...
For researchers studying the possible connections between human health and the trillions of microbes that inhabit our digestive tract, what makes the work so exciting is also what makes it challenging.
Despite years of effort, including sequencing the gut microbes...
The dark red illustration shows the human counterpart to the temperature receptor of the malaria mosquito which has now been studied. The mechanism of how the flow of positive ions through the channel is controlled by the temperature is...
3-D spheres infected with TB. Credit: University of Southampton
Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new 3D system to study human infection in the laboratory.
The team, which includes infection researchers, engineers and bioinformaticians in Southampton and University...
Evolution is often thought of as a gradual remodeling of the genome, the genetic blueprints for building an organism. But in some instance it might be more appropriate to call it an overhaul. Over the past 100 million years,...
Using genome-wide CRISPR screens, Wang et al. identified clusters of genes that act together to carry diverse sets of biological processes that support cell survival and proliferation. Credit: Sigrid Knemeyer
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease, with myriad distinct subtypes that...
