International team discovers unique pathway for treating deadly children’s brain cancer
Genomic bait and switch starves mutation that contributes to Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG)Credit: Courtesy of the Doherty family PHOENIX, ...
Tag: Molecular Biology
The Paleozoic Diet: Why Animals Eat What They Eat
An in-depth look into the deep history of how animals evolved their dietary preferences over the last 800 million years ...
What’s killing sea otters? Scientists pinpoint parasite strain
Genetic link found between deadly pathogen and wild and feral cats on landCredit: Trina Wood/UC Davis Many wild southern sea ...
Scientists successfully innoculate, grow crops in salt-damaged soil
High-salinity land now unable to sustain plant life could once again be usedCredit: BYU Photo A group of researchers may ...
Scratching the surface of how your brain senses an itch
Salk researchers discover a set of neurons in the spinal cord that help transmit a light-touch signal from the skin ...
September’s SLAS Discovery issue now available
Feature article, 'Using physicochemical measurements to influence better compound design,' now available for 30 daysCredit: David James Group Oak Brook, ...
Here’s how early humans evaded immunodeficiency viruses
CryoEM reveals structural effect of mutation that made humans, but not apes, immune to SIVCredit: UC Berkeley image by Cosmo ...
Scientists discover the basics of how pressure-sensing Piezo proteins work
Credit: Dr. Simon Scheuring A team of scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine and The Rockefeller University has illuminated the basic ...
‘Kissing loops’ in RNA molecule essential for its role in tumor suppression
Credit: Tobias Wüstenfeld Human cells - like those of many other organisms - have developed mechanisms to protect us from ...
CNIO discovers a connection between nutrients and follicular lymphoma
Using the novel CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique, researchers induced RagC mutations in mouse models. Survival was increased following treatment with rapamycin, ...
