LIFE SCIENCE

For oral medications that prevent new HIV infection to be effective, the patient must take certain actions, including attending doctor's visits every three months and – most importantly – consistency.  These daily oral…
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Research collaboration by the Texas A&M Department of Entomology and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA, creates potential for genetic tools to control disease-spreading ticks. A recently published study by Jason…
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Our bodies divest themselves of 60 billion cells every day through a natural process of cell culling and turnover called apoptosis. These cells -; mainly blood and gut cells -; are all replaced with new ones, but the way our…
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A new study identifies a link between depression and dysmenorrhea, with sleeplessness as a potential mediator.  Study: Deciphering the genetic interplay between depression and dysmenorrhea: a Mendelian randomization study.…
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A team of researchers led by Anna-Karin Gustavsson at Rice University has developed an innovative imaging platform that promises to improve our understanding of cellular structures at the nanoscale. This platform, called…
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The Wistar Institute's Alessandro Gardini, Ph.D., and lab have shed new light on how certain biological processes determine the development of neural cells. Their findings on a molecular "bridge" complex demonstrate a new…
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Research in biomedical laboratories has been changing significantly in recent years, to the point that test tubes have given way to computers on many occasions. In this context, many discoveries now begin with detailed studies…
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Scientists have unveiled a new tool for studying the highly variable traits that allow malaria parasites to stick to red blood cells and evade the immune system.  The study, published today as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife,…
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Whether cells in the human body survive or die under stress depends, among other things, on their mitochondria. Scientists at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Freiburg have now shown that a sudden stop in energy…
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A genetic predisposition to having lower insulin production and less healthy fat distribution are major causes of early-onset type 2 diabetes in British Asian people. According to new research from Queen Mary University of…
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