Researchers have identified genetic variants in mice that impact the levels of different bile acids as well as the size…
Brain waves detected in mini-brains grown in a dish
Scientists have created miniature brains from stem cells that developed functional neural networks. Despite being a million times smaller than…
Drug resistance signature discovered in Crohn’s disease
By mapping out more than 100,000 immune cells in patients with Crohn’s disease, researchers have discovered a signature of cells…
How chikungunya virus may cause chronic joint pain
A new method for permanently marking cells infected with chikungunya virus could reveal how the virus continues to cause joint…
How visceral leishmaniasis spread through central-Southern Brazil
The protozoan disease visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has recently expanded to places where it had not previously been reported and has…
Cracking the code of a brain cancer that keeps coming back
Researchers used a powerful new computer-assisted technology called single-cell transcriptomics that measures thousands of individual cells simultaneously to map cell…
Gene therapy reduces obesity and reverses type 2 diabetes in mice
The obesity epidemic affects nearly half a billion people worldwide, many of them children. Obesity-related diseases including heart disease, stroke,…
Blocking specific protein could provide new treatment for deadly form of prostate cancer
Blocking a kinase known as CDK7 sets off a chain reaction that results in the death of prostate cancer cells…
A protective factor against Alzheimer’s disease?
Researchers have found that a protein called TREM2 could positively influence the course of Alzheimer’s disease.
Marathoners, take your marks…and fluid and salt!
Legend states that after the Greek army defeated the invading Persian forces near the city of Marathon in 490 B.C.E.,…