Genetics & Molecular Biology

RNA Measurements Are Overstated In Gene Expression Studies

It is common in some fields to infer that differences in one area will ultimately reflect differences in the end product. Though the real abuse and misuse is with neuroscience and tools like fMRI imaging, they are not alone.  Geneticists have also commonl ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2014 - 12:27pm

Neutrophils- How The Immune System's ATVs Get Around

Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell and are summoned to fight infections or injury in any tissue or organ in the body, regardless of cellular and biochemical composition. How do neutrophils, the body's all terrain vehicles, move in these confi ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2014 - 1:30pm

Hair Growth With A Little Help From Macrophages- And Skin Regeneration

Previous studies of hair loss have identified signals from the skin that help prompt new phases of hair growth and a new study reveals a new way to spur hair growth.  ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 26 2014 - 4:30pm

How Enzymes Work

Enzymes are crucial for assisting virtually all biological processes, but there has been little consensus on how they work. Molecular processes crucial to life are made possible by these but beyond that less is known.  Chemists looking inside a working enz ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 25 2014 - 10:08pm

Moderate Drinking Is Healthy- For 15 Percent Of The Population

It's commonly said that moderate alcohol consumption is good for people, but no one knew why and the determination of moderate was arbitrary. A new study of 618 Swedes with coronary heart disease and a control group of 3,000 healthy subjects lent evi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2015 - 10:00am

Neu5Gc- Study Suggests It's Why Red Meat Linked To Inflammation And Cancer In Mice

Humans who eat a lot of red meat are known to be at higher risk for certain cancers but other carnivores are not, which is a bit of an epidemiological puzzle, mostly because cancer rates in animals are not well-known. In a recent study,  University of Cal ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2015 - 1:12pm

Multiple Sclerosis Patients Doing Well Years After Stem Cell Transplants

Multiple sclerosis is a degenerative disease and most patients with RRMS who received disease-modifying therapies experience breakthrough disease. Autologous (using a patient's own cells) hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) has been studied in multip ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2015 - 11:23am

Blocking Notch Pathway To Help Restore Hearing

Sensory 'hair cell' loss is the major cause of hearing loss and balance disorders. The postnatal mammalian inner ear harbors progenitor cells which have the potential for hair cell regeneration- and hearing recovery- but the mechanisms that cont ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 9:30am

White Fat Can Turn Brown: So If You Want To Lose Weight, Live A Little Colder

White fat and brown fat have been well documented regarding metabolism but new research has introduced data that may be important this winter and this new year: each type of fat may change into the other, depending on the temperature. In particular, cold ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 11:12am

The Biological Clock Regulating Skin Stem Cell Metabolism

A study of circadian rhythms in skin stem cells finds that this biological clock plays a key role in coordinating daily metabolic cycles and cell division. The paper shows how the body's intrinsic day-night cycles protect and nurture stem cell differ ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2015 - 9:00am