The Russian space agency confirms the loss of an unmanned cargo ship heading for the…
Month: December 2016
‘Diet is global food policy’s elephant in the room’
Global food policy needs to shift way from focusing on feeding people enough calories to…
Gut microbes promote motor deficits in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease
Gut microbes may play a critical role in the development of Parkinson’s-like movement disorders in…
How Zika infects the growing brain
The fast-spreading Zika virus can take multiple routes into developing human nerve cells, research demonstrates….
Sutton Hoo bitumen links Syria with Anglo-Saxon England
Analysis of black organic fragments found in the Sutton Hoo boat burial reveals they are…
Diabetes advance: Cells produce insulin upon artemisinin treatment
FDA-approved artemisinins, which have been used for decades to treat malaria, transform glucagon-producing alpha cells…
New role for Hippo pathway in suppressing cancer immunity
Previous studies identified the Hippo pathway kinases LATS1/2 as a tumor suppressor, but new research…
Autism spectrum disorders: New genetic cause of identified
Autism spectrum disorders affect around one percent of the world’s population and are characterized by…
Detailed images of NMDA receptors help explain how zinc and a drug affect their function
The difference between mental health and mental illness can turn on changes in brain cells…
First structural map of cystic fibrosis protein sheds light on how mutations cause disease
Scientists have created the first three-dimensional map of the protein responsible for cystic fibrosis, an…