Oncologist Jane C. Wright and physics Nobel-winner Donald Glaser have died.
Oncologist Jane C. Wright and physics Nobel-winner Donald Glaser have died.
Normal proteins with regions resembling disease-causing prions are responsible for an inherited disorder that affects the brain, muscle, and bone.
Drosophila insulin-like peptides (dILPs) regulate part of the signaling pathway that helps keep organs growing in proportion during development.
| March 1, 2013
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Inducing certain brain patterns extends non-REM sleep in mice.
During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
Children with dyslexia have an easier time learning to read after playing action video games that don’t incorporate reading.
Blind tadpoles regain vision when new eyes are grafted onto their tails.
The first researcher to clone the gene for green fluorescent protein, but who was passed over for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is back in academic science.
Transplanting mouse neurons into rats allows the neurons to survive twice as long as they would in mice.