Nobel Laureate Jerome Karle has passed away at age 94.
Nobel Laureate Jerome Karle has passed away at age 94.
The cell fragments play a role in the body’s first line of defense against bacterial infection, helping white blood cells grab blood-borne bacteria in the liver.
Researchers identify the signaling program that enables finger and toenail stem cells to direct digit regeneration after amputation.
A compound that targets a particular opioid receptor in the amygdala reduces the formation of PTSD-like systems in mice subjected to severe trauma.
In avian species, a gene induces programmed cell death during development in the area where a phallus would otherwise grow.
Some H5N1 and H7N9 bird flu viruses could be one mutation away from spreading efficiently between humans.
Scientists discover gene behind an inherited muscle disorder by studying zebrafish embryos.
Scientists create nontoxic pH nanosensors to assess viability of transplanted therapeutic cells.
Highlights from a series of three webinars on the future of genome research, held by The Scientist to celebrate 60 years of the DNA double helix
In the fruit fly, the ability of neural stem cells to make the full repertoire of neurons is regulated by the movement of key genes to the nuclear periphery.