Human chromosomes are stained blue (DAPI) with ribosomal DNA in green (FISH probe).
Credit: Image courtesy of Tamara Potapova, Ph.D.
Research from the Stowers Institute provides evidence suggesting that cancer cells might streamline their genomes in order to proliferate more easily....
The fight against type 2 diabetes may soon improve thanks to a pioneering high-fiber diet study led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor.
Promotion of a select group of gut bacteria by a diet high in diverse fibers led to...
A recent study published in the Journal of Mammalogy, at Oxford University Press, highlights that over 1000 new species of mammals have been described globally during the last dozen years, a finding that contradicts the notion that our mammalian relatives...
A new cellular messenger discovered by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists may help reveal how cancer cells co-opt the body's intercellular delivery service to spread to new locations in the body.
In a paper published Feb. 19 in Nature Cell Biology, the...
Neonatal doctors and nurses know that preterm babies sometimes "tune out" and become unresponsive when they are overwhelmed.
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When newborn babies are under stress, their brains show a heightened response to pain, a new study has...
Bats do a lot of good for the world—they pollinate plants, they eat disease-carrying insects, and they help disperse seeds that help with the regeneration of tropical forest trees. Bats and a range of other mammal groups are also...
This is a female monarch.
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High food stress may impact wing size and coloration -- both indicators of migratory success -- in monarch butterflies, according to results published April 2, 2014, in the open access journal PLOS...
Research on tunas in the lab of Stanford Professor Barbara Block identified the substance in crude oil that causes dysfunction in heart cells. This is a Pacific bluefin tuna in the Open Sea exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium....
Two to three million years ago, the functional loss of a single gene triggered a series of significant changes in what would eventually become the modern human species, altering everything from fertility rates to increasing cancer risk from eating...
Why is it that a master musician can learn a new score in no time, yet encounter difficulty learning something else, like skateboarding tricks? Could there is any truth to the myth that you use only 10 percent of...
Professor of Animal Sciences Alfred Roca (left) with Alex Greenwood of the Leibnitz Institute, Berlin at the San Diego Zoo.
Credit: Image courtesy of Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eight percent of your genome derives from retroviruses...
