An international team of researchers co-led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, have identified rules that ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...

The study is the latest to look for blood biomarkers that could serve as early warning signs of Parkinson’s. A simple blood test may help identify people at the earliest stages of Parkinson’s ...

A team has identified a previously unknown phase of the immune response. The results challenge long-standing assumptions about the process called 'T-cell priming'. These new insights have significant ...

Figure 1: Confocal imaging of LLC-PK-1 cells in mitosis. To generate the GFP fusion ... In addition to air curtain incubators, heated stages are available for some microscopes.

But there are a lack of cost-effective, non-invasive olfactory tests that might help identify cognitive decline in early stages — when interventions are most effective. The study published ...

Instead, it emerges slowly, beginning with subtle changes that might be dismissed as normal aging before progressing through increasingly serious stages of cognitive and functional decline.

A team of researchers in China and Japan have investigated which brain regions and neurotransmitters are responsible for different phases during sex. A paper published March 19 in the journal ...

The data convincingly show that the transcription factor Sp1 regulates ephrin-mediated axon guidance in the spinal cord. Although the authors show that Sp1 and its co-activators p300 and CBP are ...