Perhaps no other biochemist in the world has his own baseball card, but University of Massachusetts Amherst doctoral student Elih...
A new animal model of nerve injury has brought to light a critical role of an enzyme called Nmnat in...
Huntington’s disease, the debilitating congenital neurological disorder that progressively robs patients of muscle coordination and cognitive ability, is a condition...
Buck Institute research in mice moves into preclinical stage; working toward human trials Lithium profoundly prevents the aggregation of toxic...
Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee have for the first time successfully characterized the earliest structural...
Research using tobacco plants and Arabidopsis Thaliana weeds has answered long standing mysteries about sexual reproduction in plants. The research...
Scientists discovered the reaction which starts the formation of amyloid fibers. Amyloid fibers are problematic in many diseases and disorders...
Neuroscientists found that the specific microRNA, microRNA-29 (miR-29), can make brain cells resistant to programmed cell death. The researchers injected...
Max Planck researchers discovered that large, less hydrophobic proteins with a significant increase of disorder in their structures were more...
Huntington’s disease research using simple organisms such as baker’s yeast has yielded new information about underlying mechanisms of Huntington’s disease...
