The brain’s phagocytes follow an ATP bread trail laid down by calcium waves to the site of damage.
The brain’s phagocytes follow an ATP bread trail laid down by calcium waves to the site of damage.
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Age: 38
Japanese astronauts deliver an aquarium to the International Space Station to study the effects of microgravity on marine life.
With persistence and pluck, Leslie Vosshall managed to snatch insect odorant receptors from the jaws of experimental defeat.
Contrary to existing dogma, colon cancer cell mitochondria carry fewer mutations than mitochondria of normal body cells.
Actin filaments respond to pressure by forming branches at their curviest spots, helping resist the push.
Germline stem cells discovered in human ovaries can be cultured into fresh eggs.
In pondering genome structure and function, evolutionary geneticist Laurence Hurst has arrived at some unanticipated conclusions about how natural selection has molded our DNA.
Human-specific duplications of a gene involved in brain development may have contributed to our species’ unique intelligence.
Human embryonic stem cells swiftly kill themselves in response to DNA damage.