Biotech & pharma

Researchers identify innate channel that protects against pain

30 Jan 2014

Tiny acts of microbe justice help reveal how nature fights freeloaders

30 Jan 2014

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 discovery potential of natural microbial genomes

23 Jan 2014

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

Common disorders: it’s not the genes, but how they are controlled

17 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

Stem cells used to model disease that causes abnormal bone growth

14 Jan 2014

Research uncovers key difference between our bodies' fight against viruses and bacteria

13 Jan 2014

Non-coding DNA implicated in type 2 diabetes

13 Jan 2014

Unique protein interaction may drive most common genetic cause of Parkinson’s Disease

13 Jan 2014

Metastatic cancer cells implode on protein contact

By By Blaine Friedlander | 09 Jan 2014

Biologists find clues to a parasite’s inconsistency

06 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

Biologists discover solution to problem limiting development of human stem cell therapies

03 Jan 2014

Over 100 genetic risk markers for rheumatoid arthritis identified

01 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

Biosynthesis captured in motion

26 Dec 2013

Adult stem cells found to suppress cancer while dormant

By By Shaun Mason | 24 Dec 2013

Biologists find clues to a parasite’s inconsistency

24 Dec 2013

How cells remodel after UV radiation

23 Dec 2013