Mass. General, Duke Study Identifies Two Genes that Combine to Cause Rare SyndromeMutations in genes that regulate cellular metabolism found in families with ataxia, dementia and reproductive failure.
Agilent Technologies Announces Winner of Fifth Annual Early Career Professor AwardAssistant Professor at Northwestern Recognized for Cancer Diagnostics Research.
Gene Discoveries Give Hope Against 'Brittle Bone' DiseaseScientists pinpoint mutation that appears to cause severe forms of bone loss.
Duke Researchers Describe How Breast Cancer Cells Acquire Drug ResistanceA seven-year quest has revealed a previously unknown molecular network that regulates cell death.
Researchers Identify How Cells Control Calcium InfluxWhen brain cells are overwhelmed by an influx of too many calcium molecules, they shut down the channels through which these molecules enter the cells.
Computer Simulations Reveal the Energy Landscape of Ion ChannelsA team of researchers have investigated the opening and closing mechanisms of these channels: for the first time the full energy landscape of such a large protein could be calculated.
Unusual Comparison Nets New Sleep Loss MarkerPaul Shaw, PhD, a researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, uses what he learns in fruit flies to look for markers of sleep loss in humans.
Thijn Brummelkamp Receives the EMBO Gold Medal for 2013The award acknowledges his outstanding work to accelerate the genetic analysis of human disease.
Launch of £90m Initiative in Big Data and Drug Discovery at Oxford University'Big data' to revolutionise healthcare.
Adult Cells Transformed into Early-Stage Nerve Cells, Bypassing the Pluripotent Stem Cell StageA UW-Madison research group has converted skin cells from people and monkeys into a cell that can form a wide variety of nervous-system cells.
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