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An international team of scientists, using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, has revealed the three dimensional structure of a key enzyme that enables the single-celled parasite that causes African trypanosomiasis (or sleeping sickness) in humans.
Dec 5th, 2012
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Johns Hopkins researchers have used a small synthetic molecule to stimulate cells to move and change shape, bypassing the cells' usual way of sensing and responding to their environment. The experiment pioneers a new tool for studying cell movement, a phenomenon involved in everything from development to immunity to the spread of cancer.
Dec 5th, 2012
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Researchers in Japan have created a hybrid scaffold which promotes tissue regeneration, strong and biodegradable.
Dec 5th, 2012
Read moreScientists have discovered 100 million-year-old regions in the DNA of several plant species which could hold secrets about how specific genes are turned 'on' or 'off'.
Dec 5th, 2012
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With a new research center, Stanford scientists from across campus will join a new "information age of genomics." The goal is nothing short of improving human well-being.
Dec 4th, 2012
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New finding might help improve "liquid biopsy" approach for detecting cancer cells in blood.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreScientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and the Biozentrum of the University of Basel have published an important proof-of-principle study showing that a computational model can elucidate the interplay of transcription regulators and epigenome dynamics during differentiation. This is critical for a better understanding of the nature of different cell types and disease stages.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreNew research from two teams led by Carnegie's Zhiyong Wang and Kathryn Barton focuses on the role of the crucial plant hormone brassinosteroid in the creation of plant-shoot architecture.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreSustainable technique does not add chemicals, hormones or create genetically modified organisms.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreUsing computational techniques, researchers have shown how a protein responsible for the maturation of the virus releases itself to initiate infection.
Dec 4th, 2012
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Neural stem cells in the adult brain boost their levels of lipid metabolism to grow and generate new neurons. This new finding may open novel therapeutic avenues to treat age- or disease-associated loss of brain cells.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreResearchers at the University of Bonn investigate one of the oldest mysteries of plant breeding.
Dec 3rd, 2012
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To improve the productivity of cassava - a rough and ready root crop that has long been the foundation of food security in Africa -- and plant breeding in sub-Saharan Africa, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom have awarded Cornell $25.2 million to host a five-year research project.
Dec 1st, 2012
Read moreThe Supreme Court announced Friday it will decide whether companies can patent human genes, a decision that could reshape medical research in the United States and the fight against diseases like breast and ovarian cancer.
Dec 1st, 2012
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Bacterial virulence factor of mushroom soft rot identified. The substance called jagaricin could represent a starting point for the development of new antifungal drugs.
Nov 29th, 2012
Read moreBy following a set of principles, scientists can produce protein molecules that previously did not exist in nature.
Nov 29th, 2012
Read moreA huge EU consortium joined forces to develop tools for managing the co-existence of genetically modified (GM) foods and conventional ones in the EU market. The traceability provided should be critical to consumer confidence.
Nov 29th, 2012
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Scientists from the United States, United Kingdom and Germany recently completed the first analysis of the bread wheat genome, one of the "big three" global crops upon which mankind depends for nutrition.
Nov 29th, 2012
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