Nature Communications

Cells must use their brakes moderately for effective speed control

How cells regulate their own function by "accelerating and braking" is important basic knowledge when new intelligent medicines are being developed, or when plant cells are tweaked to produce more bioenergy. In a study published ...

Medical research created May 15, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stem cell researchers move toward treatment for rare genetic nerve disease

(Medical Xpress)—UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to advance disease-in-a-dish modeling of a rare genetic ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 10, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Basophils required for the induction of Th2 immunity to haptens and peptide antigens

Researchers from Kyoto University have reported that basophils play a central role in Th2 induction.

Medical research created May 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FIU researchers develop new pathway to brain for medicine

Stumped for years by a natural filter in the body that allows few substances, including life-saving drugs, to enter the brain through the bloodstream, physicians who treat neurological diseases may soon have a new pathway ...

Medical research created May 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Decoded: Molecular messages that tell prostate and breast cancers to spread

Cancer cells are wily, well-traveled adversaries, constantly side-stepping treatments to stop their spread. But for the first time, scientists at the University of Michigan have decoded the molecular chatter that ramps certain ...

Cancer created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Competing pathways affect early differentiation of higher brain structures

Sand-dwelling and rock-dwelling cichlids living in East Africa's Lake Malawi share a nearly identical genome, but have very different personalities. The territorial rock-dwellers live in communities where ...

Neuroscience created Apr 26, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Thanks to rare alpine bacteria, researchers identify one of alcohol's key gateways to the brain

Thanks to a rare bacteria that grows only on rocks in the Swiss Alps, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the Pasteur Institute in France have been the first to identify how alcohol might ...

Medical research created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New research findings on the brain's guardian cells

The central nervous system's mop-up crew, microglia, play an important role in protecting the brain against disease and injury. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has now developed a method that makes it possible ...

Medical research created Apr 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers decode a kind of trigger switch for the conversion of fat cells

For a long time, scientists have dreamed of converting undesirable white fat cells into brown fat cells and thus simply have excess pounds melt away. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now gotten ...

Medical research created Apr 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Atomic-level characterization of the effects of alcohol on a major player of the central nervous system

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and the University of Texas have been able to observe at atomic-level the effects of ethanol (the alcohol present in alcoholic beverages) on central nervous system receptors.

Medical research created Apr 22, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers decipher molecular basis of bone's remarkable strength and resiliency

The bones that support our bodies are made of remarkably complex arrangements of materials—so much so that decoding the precise structure responsible for their great strength and resilience has eluded scientists' ...

Medical research created Apr 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mum and dad equally good at recognising baby's cry, study finds

French researchers on Tuesday dealt a blow to folklore that says mothers are better than fathers in recognising their baby's cry.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 16, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Key pathway to stop dangerous, out-of-control inflammation discovered

A potential new strategy to developing new drugs to control inflammation without serious side effects has been found by Georgia State University researchers and international colleagues.

Inflammatory disorders created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Novel gene drives development of different types of ovarian cancer

Researchers at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center have identified a novel gene that can contribute to a woman's susceptibility for developing ovarian cancer. Researchers identified the gene, called HNF1B, through large-scale analysis ...

Cancer created Mar 27, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Five genetic variations increase risk of ovarian cancer

An international research collaboration has found five new regions of the human genome that are linked to increased risks for developing ovarian cancer. Duke Medicine researchers played a leading role analyzing genetic information ...

Cancer created Mar 27, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0