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Switching what the powerhouses of heart cells consume for energy could help the heart regenerate when cells die, a new study led by UT Southwestern researchers suggests.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have completed a cross-sectional human study that compares biomarkers and metal concentrations in the urine of e-cigarette users, nonsmokers, and cigarette smokers.

New work shows how using next-generation DNA sequencing on ancient packrat middens--nests made out of plant material, fragments of insects, bones, fecal matter, and urine--could provide ecological snapshots of Earth's past.

Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have taken an algorithm used to study social networks, such as Facebook communities, and adapted it to identify how DNA and proteins are interconnected into communities within the cell nucleus.

Two research teams from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and their collaborators have created a detailed cell atlas of an entire salivary gland tumor in a mouse model, mapping individual cells throughout the tumor and its surrounding tissue.

The IDIBELL Neurometabolic Diseases group, with international collaboration, has identified a model of chromosome X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (x-ALD) in the earthworm C. elegans, this is a rare disorder of the nervous system with no treatment available.

Researchers have identified a gene in human neurons that protects against the degeneration of motor neurons in the deadly diseases ALS and SMA in animal models.

Changes in DNA methylation patterns during a coral’s lifetime can be passed down to their progeny.

The first detailed cell atlas of the immune cells and gut bacteria within the human colon has been created by researchers. These results will enable new studies into diseases which affect specific regions of the colon, such as ulcerative colitis and colorectal cancer.

Scientists have successfully generated complex embryo-like structures from mouse embryonic stem cells, potentially allowing the later stages of embryonic development to be studied in a dish.