Biotech & pharma
In the brain, timing is everything
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 25 Jan 2014
Neuroscientists have now discovered how two neural circuits in the brain work together to link memories of events that occur one after the other.
Drug strategy blocks a leading driver of cancer
By By Jeffrey Norris | 20 Jan 2014
Scientists develop new approach to study how genetic variants affect gene expression
By By Kim Irwin | 20 Jan 2014
Molecular nano-spies to make light work of disease detection
16 Jan 2014
A world of cloak-and-dagger pharmaceuticals has come a step closer with the development of stealth compounds programmed to spring into action when they receive the signal.
Turning up the heat on enzyme design
15 Jan 2014
Non-coding DNA implicated in type 2 diabetes
13 Jan 2014
Metastatic cancer cells implode on protein contact
By By Blaine Friedlander | 09 Jan 2014
The mouse that ROR’ed
06 Jan 2014
Stem cell scientists first to track joint cartilage development in humans
By By Shaun Mason | 06 Jan 2014
Animal cells can communicate by reaching out and touching
By By Pete Farley | 06 Jan 2014
New study brings scientists closer to the origin of RNA
26 Dec 2013
Chemists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have shown how molecules that may have been present on early Earth can self-assemble into structures that could represent a starting point of RNA