Normal proteins with regions resembling disease-causing prions are responsible for an inherited disorder that affects the brain, muscle, and bone.
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.
Contrary to previous assumptions that macrolide antibiotics completely block the exit tunnel of ribosomes, new evidence shows that some peptides are allowed to pass.
| March 1, 2013
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Inducing certain brain patterns extends non-REM sleep in mice.
An Oregon teenager spent a summer in a New York biochemistry lab helping to discover a novel molecule that could become the next commercial nonaddictive painkiller.
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.
Transplanting mouse neurons into rats allows the neurons to survive twice as long as they would in mice.