These images show a mesostructured silicon particle. Left: transmission X-ray microscopy 3D data set of one region, suggesting spongy structures. The purple square measures 8.28 microns along the top edges, which is much less than the width of a...
As we age, the function and regenerative abilities of skeletal muscles deteriorate, which means it is difficult for the elderly to recover from injury or surgery. New work from Carnegie's Michelle Rozo, Liangji Li, and Chen-Ming Fan demonstrates that...
Skeletal myotubes grown for three weeks on gelatin hydrogel (Image by Archana Bettadapur, Gio Suh, Evelyn Wang, Holly Huber, Alyssa Viscio and Megan McCain)
USC researcher Megan L. McCain and colleagues have devised a way to develop bigger, stronger muscle...
MIT researchers have developed a new way to image proteins and RNA inside neurons of intact brain tissue.Image: Yosuke Bando, Fei Chen, Dawen Cai, Ed Boyden, and Young Gyu
Cells contain thousands of messenger RNA molecules, which carry copies of...
Our ancestors evolved three times faster in the 10 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs than in the previous 80 million years, according to UCL researchers.
The team found the speed of evolution of placental mammals -- a...
Oxford University researchers are closer to solving a decade-old mystery after discovering that a set of genes they are studying play a key role in early human development.
Evolutionary biologist Professor Peter Holland and graduate student Anne Booth identified and...
Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that therapeutic stem cells exit the bloodstream in a different manner than was previously thought. This process, dubbed angiopellosis by the researchers, has implications for improving our understanding of not only...
Red blood cells must be small and flexible enough to squeeze through the tiniest capillaries of the body, where they deliver oxygen to surrounding cells. In the late 1960s, scientists proposed that the minute dimensions of these capillaries, which...
Credit: University of Colorado at Boulder
When it comes to mitochondrial inheritance, maternal genes rule the day at the expense of paternal ones. But why?
A new study, published today in the journal Science and led by University of Colorado Boulder...
Rubber is eing collected from a rubber tree.Credit: Minami Matsui at RIKEN
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan along with collaborators at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) have succeeded in decoding the genome sequence for...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory researchers found 'amazing diverity' in the maize plant by extensively sampling messages copied from activated genes in these six portions, or 'tissues,' of the plant.Credit: Ware lab CSHL
The genome of the corn plant -- or...
