11
03
2015
Scientists at Dartmouth say they have found that some proteins turn into liquid droplets on the way to becoming toxic solids implicated in neurodegenerative diseases and other genetic disorders.
11
03
2015
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical Shcool have found new evidence suggesting some human induced pluripotent stem cells are the “functional equivalent” of human embryonic stem cells, a finding that may begin to settle a long running argument.
11
02
2015
Hot on the heels of the recent announcement of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry being awarded for seminal discoveries in the area of DNA repair, researchers at Vanderbilt University have published data describing new enzymatic activity for a DNA glycosylase discovered previously in the bacteria Bacillus cereus.
11
02
2015
When certain types of cancer spread, they seem to prefer particular organs in the body, a choosiness that led Stephen Paget to propose the “seed and soil” hypothesis.
10
30
2015
A contingent of researchers from the UK, Germany, and Spain have recently developed a novel CRISPR/Cas9 system that they believe can be utilized as a multiplexed screening approach to study and model cancer development in mice.
