Findings represent an important step toward personalizing checkpoint therapy
When a second infection follows on the heels of a first, the two arms of our immune system may clash
USF Health-UT Southwestern Medical Center preclinical study suggests inhibiting PPP1R3G/PP1γ may protect against tissue damage from heart attacks, other diseases linked to inflammation
Coral reefs connected by larvae dispersal networks have been found to benefit local fisheries and biodiversity conservation, prompting recommendations to increase the protection of connected reefs.
How do speeding cells come to a screeching halt at just the right point within blood vessels?
Decades of research has shown that limits on calorie intake by flies, worms, and mice can enhance life span in laboratory conditions.
Although essential genes are only a tiny part of the genes of most organisms (about 5% to 10%), they are important because they are responsible for much of the organism's protein synthesis and because they are the targets of most antibiotics. Essential genes are notoriously hard to study, however, because their removal leads to the death of the organism.
Daphnia pulex, the common water flea, has been extensively studied to help science understand human disease processes. Daphnia’s short reproductive cycle makes it ideal for studies of genetic changes over generations. It was the first crustacean to have its full genome sequenced.
Scientists report that they have built a living “minimal cell” with a genome stripped down to its barest essentials – and a computer model of the cell that mirrors its behavior.
Biofluorescence is present in the platypus and several other New World animals. Recently scientists documented it for the first time in an Old World mammal: the springhare.
A special issue of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Dec. 4, celebrates the contributions of J.D. Murray, one of the modern founders of mathematical biology.
One day Prof. Eldad Tzahor peered into a microscope in his lab and saw steak.
DNA, the famous double-strand helix that holds the genetic code, can break along one or both strands. Double-stranded breaks can kill a cell or create an opportunity for cancerous growth.
A new review discusses how host organisms dominate bacteria populations in their systems to maintain overall health.
Bifidobacterium are with us at birth and play an important role in human health, yet much is still unknown about how they work.
Emerging infectious diseases, in particular chytridiomycosis, are responsible for drastic declines in amphibian diversity around the world. Determining the factors that influence these pathogens and how they spread can help scientists understand the dynamics involved.
A molecule known as anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a driver of several cancers, including pediatric neuroblastoma, B-cell lymphomas, and myofibroblast tumors.
Only a small part of the DNA in eukaryotes (organisms with a cell nucleus) codes for the production of the proteins that make life possible. The rest is called non-coding, or sometimes, “junk” DNA. In humans this may be as much as 98% of the total DNA strand.
The chameleon's catapulting tongue and the bloodworm's burrowing proboscis inspired the creation of a soft touch robotic mechanism that can manipulate delicate objects without damaging them.
Molecule masterminds elaborate growth process