What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
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.
Directed evolution of a gene therapy virus vector improves its penetration into the retina.
Researchers identify the signaling program that enables finger and toenail stem cells to direct digit regeneration after amputation.
A Canadian lab demonstrates upgrades to hospital cyclotrons that can yield enough diagnostic tracer element overnight to meet an entire city’s daily needs.
US universities need to reach across their own borders to retain global scientific preeminence.
The NIH remains a Caucasian-dominated workforce. Why haven’t the agency’s efforts to diversify been successful?
In avian species, a gene induces programmed cell death during development in the area where a phallus would otherwise grow.
Crowdsourcing biomedical research; bird flu contagion?; zebrafish shed light on inherited muscle disorder; the economics of the Human Genome Project; the epigenetics of pair bonding
Stimulating brain cells with light reveals the dysfunctional circuitry that causes obsessive-compulsive disorder.