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.
Supreme Court says no patenting (natural) genes; brain-computer interfaces mimic motor learning in brain; regenerating finger tips; gene therapy goes deeper; NIH needs more diversity; cross-border collaboration
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.
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.
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.