Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine scientists have fine-tuned their delivery system to deliver a DNA editing tool to alter […]
Closing the gap: Two-tier mechanism for epithelial barrier
Epithelia are cell sheets that act as a barrier to protect our body from the external environment. Epithelial barrier is […]
Drug interaction research: Evolution clues
A biologist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has shown that a key biological component in a worm’s communication system can […]
‘Wildling’ mice could help translate results in animal models to results in humans: Researchers create mouse colony to address shortcomings of laboratory mice
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health developed a new mouse model that could improve the translation of research in […]
Phthalate MEHP and cardiac arrhythmias
Calling an ambulance during an emergency, emailing a breaking news or journal article before a 5 p.m. deadline and maintaining […]
Patterns in DNA reveal hundreds of unknown protein pairings: Method will be applied to human genome to learn more about how our proteins interact to carry out biological functions
Sequencing a genome is getting cheaper, but making sense of the resulting data remains hard. Researchers have now found a […]
Medically unnecessary ambulance rides soar after ACA expansion
By 2016, two years into the expansion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 17.6 million previously uninsured people around the […]
Balancing data protection and research needs in the age of the GDPR
Scientific journals and funding bodies often require researchers to deposit individual genetic data from studies in research repositories in order […]
DNA tests for patients move closer with genome analysis advance
Diseases caused by genetic changes could be detected more readily thanks to an advance in DNA analysis software. The development […]
Eye’s vulnerability to macular degeneration revealed
Scientists have found significant differences in the shape and biology of the same type of cell taken from different parts […]