TWEAK regulates inflammation in atopic dermatitis and psoriasis. Left: Normal skin. Middle: Skin inflammation in atopic dermatitis. Right: Blocking TWEAK reduces skin inflammation in atopic dermatitis.
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Daniel Sidler, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Superficially, psoriasis...
This is a Mursi woman of Nilo-Saharan ancestry. Nilo-Saharan pastoralist populations possess some of the darkest skin in Africa. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found mutations associated with both light and dark pigmentation in a genome-wide association study...
Inflammatory mechanisms caused by the brain's immune system drive the progression of Alzheimer's disease, according to new research.
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According to a study by scientists of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the University of...
This is an artist's depiction of a quantum simulation. Lasers manipulate an array of more than 50 atomic qubits to study the dynamics of quantum magnetism.
Credit: E. Edwards/JQI
Two independent teams of scientists, including one from the University of Maryland...
This is a damselfish of the Chromis species.
Credit: Jacob Johansen/Univ. of Texas at Austin
Just as one too many cocktails can lead a person to make bad choices, a few drops of oil can cause coral reef fish to make...
DNA (stock illustration).
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A neutral genetic mutation -- a fluke in the evolutionary process that had no apparent biological purpose -- that appeared over 700 million years ago in biological evolution could help explain the origin...
Water (stock image). Researchers have used cobalt oxide nanoparticles to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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Researchers from the University of Houston have found a catalyst that can quickly generate hydrogen from water using sunlight, potentially...
One of the cichlid fish from Guatemala, Thorichthys meeki, collected by LSU Curator of Ichthyology Prosanta Chakrabarty for the study that refuted the date in which the Isthmus of Panama was formed.
Credit: Courtesy of Prosanta Chakrabarty, LSU
A long-standing fact...
The genetic material of the HIV virus is encased in multiple structures that hide it from the host immune system. The capsid, in blue, protects the virus after it enters a cell and shuttles it to the nucleus, where...
Titan's winter polar vortex imaged by the Cassini Spacecraft's ISS camera. The vortex is now in deep winter and can only be seen because the polar clouds within the vortex extend high above Titan's surface into the sunlight. The...
Heliofungia actiniformis uses pulsed inflation to try to survive coral bleaching.
Credit: Brett Lewis, QUT
Coral researchers have for the first time captured the specific behaviour of a coral as it's bleaching.
The team from QUT in Australia used a clever combination...
