Transcriptional profiling of post-mortem human brains reveals commonalities in the genes over- and under-expressed in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and major depression.
Researchers find that while bats in the Myotis genus don’t produce telomerase, the enzyme that lengthens telomeres, they possess 21 telomere maintenance–related genes.
Two studies identify a signaling pathway that contributes to the fish’s sleeplessness.
In one of the first looks at the urinary virome, researchers find hundreds of viruses, most of which have never been sequenced before.
The Purdue University researcher is one of the first to examine the molecular processes that underlie infection by soil microbes.
The new database includes data from 27,000 samples collected at sites ranging from Alaskan permafrost to the ocean floor.
Like animals, plants host communities of microbes that influence a wide variety of their biological processes.
Pectin fragments may signal plant cells to maintain a type of growth suited to darkness.
After years of obscurity, strains of mice with mutations in particular genes are thrust to the fore of autism research.
Mitochondria may sustain temperatures more than 10 °C warmer than human cells, say researchers.
The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.
The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
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