Month: March 2015

Periodontitis shares pathogenic mechanisms with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and may trigger its onset, scientists say….

Findings from a new study that set out to investigate the evolution of immune defenses…

Many animals, including humans, acquired essential ‘foreign’ genes from microorganisms co-habiting their environment in ancient…

Human cells have been used to discover how blood flow in the heart protects against…

Scientists have revealed how taste is encoded in patterns of neural activity in the human…

Researchers engineered a fluorescent protein that rapidly assembles into large crystals inside living cells, and…

Many of us are walking around all the time in a fog caused by ‘social…

In nacre, layer lattices of inorganic calcium carbonate alternate with layers of organic material. Chitin,…

The newest guidelines for the use of cholesterol-lowering statins in people at risk of heart…

Scientists are eager to make use of stem cells’ extraordinary power to transform into nearly…