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Foot bones that are separate in small hopping rodents are fused in their larger cousins, and a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and University of California, San Diego wanted to know why.
A research team from Southern University of Science and Technology developed an automated intracellular sensing system, which provides a high-efficiency approach to reveal cellular intrinsic characteristics and heterogeneity ...
Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy type 2 (BSCL2), the most severe form of lipodystrophy that leads to loss of nearly all subcutaneous fat tissue, is caused by mutations in the BSCL2/seipin gene. Seipin is an integral ...
New research in an animal model of aging suggests a possible mechanism for why people with early menopause or other genetic conditions affecting the reproductive system are more likely to get cardiovascular disease, diabetes ...
In a surprising discovery with important implications for developmental biology and regenerative medicine, RIKEN biologists have learned how mechanical forces guide the formation of the eyes in chick embryos. Their research ...
The neurohormone oxytocin is well-known for promoting social bonds and generating pleasurable feelings, for example from art, exercise, or sex. But the hormone has many other functions, such as the regulation of lactation ...
A pair of researchers at Boston University has found that volunteer children of a lower economic status are more willing to make risky decisions than wealthier children. The results of their study are published in Proceedings ...
"What our work shows is how a complex in the center of the cell, the ER-Golgi interaction region, controls plasma membrane cholesterol, which is essential for many cellular functions, if not essential for multicellular life," ...
Research applying single-cell analysis techniques and comparisons to a cell atlas resource allowed researchers at the Babraham Institute to connect observed development defects caused by disrupted DNA methylation processes ...
Without altering the genetic code in the DNA, epigenetic modifications can change how genes are expressed, affecting an organism's health and development. The once radical idea that such changes in gene expression can be ...
