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Scientists at King's College London have discovered that vitamin D has the potential to significantly reduce the symptoms of asthma.

"We believe that we have discovered an important component of cellular immunity, one that parasites have learned to take advantage of," says Emory University biologist Todd Schlenke, whose lab led the research.

When humans and mammals lose a finger, arm, or leg, the best hope for now is advanced prosthetics, which does provide regained function.

A group of researchers from Columbia and Stanford have created a method for turning complex cellular datasets into visualizations that map the similarities between tens of thousands of cells within a tissue sample.

As scientists learn more about processing bodies , granules present within normal cells, they are unraveling the complex role PBs play in maintaining cellular homeostasis by regulating RNA metabolism and cell signaling.

In the mid-1990s, as the Human Genome Project was in full swing, scientists started thinking about the protein complement of the genome, and proteomics-the identification and characterization of all of an organism's proteins-was born.

Britain launched a research programme on Monday that should eventually allow all cancer patients to have access to the kind of genetic analysis that led Hollywood star Angelina Jolie to decide to undergo a double mastectomy.

Garland Science is proud to announce the publication of the much-anticipated Second Edition of The Biology of Cancer by Robert A. Weinberg.

Launch MI Lab Manager Greg Cavey, at center talking with a colleague, said his facility prevents Metabolic Solutions Development Co.

Aryn Young, a research assistant at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas and one of Burgess' former TCU students, is recording his running monologue on how the native grassland he helped create on BRIT's grounds represents the very heart of Fort Worth.

Main Category: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Also Included In: MRSA / Drug Resistance ; Alzheimer's / Dementia Article Date: 20 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT Frontiers in Endocrinology Differential roles of orexin receptors in the regulation of sleep/wakefulness Takeshi Sakurai, the lead author on the 1998 article that first described orexin, here ... (more)

This Editorial coincides with the release of the San Francisco declaration on research Assessment , the outcome of a gathering of concerned scientists at the December 2012 meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.

The National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg is working with a sample of the new coronavirus that's causing clusters of infections abroad - but can't share the material with other researchers across the country despite the public health urgency.

The amount of time asthma patients spend soaking up the sun may have an impact on the illness, researchers have suggested.

Barbara Brown-Elliott, MS, supervisor of the internationally known Mycobacteria/Nocardia Laboratory at UT Health Northeast, is receiving the 2013 Scherago-Rubin Award from the American Society for Microbiology today during its annual meeting in Denver.

A new study shows how complex biochemical transformations may have been possible under conditions that existed when life began on the early Earth.

Covers various aspects of metalloprotein/ metalloproteomics, dealing with the different issues related to the intracellular and extracellular metal-binding proteins, including their structures, properties and functions Exhaustively reviews all catalytically and biologically crucial metal ions and to find at least one interacting protein for other ... (more)

A Scottish breast cancer charity has called for the same genetic testing criteria to be in place north and south of the border.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a huge problem all over the world: For example, 25 -- 50 per cent of the inhabitants in southern Europe are resistant to staphylococci .

Hour after hour, Brian Dunn lofted his fly line into the turquoise-blue water of this shimmering desert lake north of Reno.