Cigarette smoking is overwhelmingly the main cause of lung cancer, yet only a minority of smokers develop the disease. A study led by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and published online today in Nature ...
Apr 11, 2022
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When scientists announced the complete sequence of the human genome in 2003, they were fudging a bit.
Mar 31, 2022
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Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have developed and tested a new imaging approach they say will accelerate imaging-based research in the lab by allowing investigators to capture images of blood vessels at different spatial ...
Feb 28, 2022
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Neuropeptides play fundamental roles in modulating cellular and circuit functions within the brain. One such signaling molecule—orexin—regulates arousal and wakefulness, and its failure can lead to constant daytime sleepiness ...
Feb 10, 2022
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CD4+ T cells are important parts of the immune system and play a key role in defending the body against pathogens. As they possess a great variety of defense mechanisms against HIV in their resting state, they are infected ...
Dec 28, 2021
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The increased predictive power of 3D cell culture-based drug development may contribute to a decrease in animal use and a higher success rate of drugs in clinical trials. This is what makes these 3D cell cultures so attractive ...
Nov 5, 2021
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The damage caused by COVID-19 to the lungs' smallest blood vessels has been intricately captured using high-energy X-rays emitted by a special type of particle accelerator.
Nov 4, 2021
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Science is examining the brain's neural activity for applications ranging from innovative therapies for brain-related injuries and disease to computational learning architectures for artificial intelligence and deep neural ...
Sep 20, 2021
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Capturing the intricacies of the brain's activity demands resolution, scale, and speed—the ability to visualize millions of neurons with crystal clear resolution as they actively call out from distant corners of the cortex, ...
Aug 30, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) launched a new online tool that could more quickly advance medical discoveries to reverse progressive hearing loss. The tool enables easy access to genetic ...
Jul 20, 2021
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