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Researchers slowed mutant fruit flies' metabolic rates by 50%, and the expected detrimental effects of many mutations never manifested. After experimentally testing fruit flies' many different genetic mutations, the researchers found the same result each time.

A news study could be key to our understanding of how the aging process works. The findings potentially pave the way for better cancer treatments and revolutionary new drugs that could vastly improve human health later in life.

Researchers have unraveled a new mechanism controlling the switch between growth and differentiation of neural stem cells during brain development. A specific factor makes stem cells "deaf" to proliferative signals, causing them to differentiate into neurons and shape the marvelous complexity of our brain.

The chemical interactions that give proteins their shape may be weaker and more numerous than previously recognized. These weak connections provide a new way for researchers to understand proteins that cause disease and help them gain insights into the fundamentals of chemistry.

Scientists have completed the first study of immune and genetic stability among a colony of penguins living in a remote corner of southern Antarctica.

A new study suggests that by analyzing noncoding mutations, researchers may be able to better understand not only ASD but a variety of conditions, ranging from neurological disorders to heart disease.

Scientists can turn proteins into never-ending patterns that look like flowers, trees or snowflakes, a technique that could help engineer a filter for tainted water and human tissues.

Researchers have used the transcriptome -- the sum of all messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules expressed from genes -- to compare 414 study participants with clinically diagnosed and neuropathologically confirmed AD with an age-matched, non-demented control group from a community-based neuropathological study.

Researchers have discovered that fat cells are involved in the transformation that melanoma cells – from cancer cells of limited growth in the epidermis to lethal metastatic cells attacking patients' vital organs.

A new generation of pathology labs mounted on chips is set to revolutionize the detection and treatment of cancer by using devices as thin as a human hair to analyze bodily fluids.