Biotech & pharma
Brain scans can predict children's reading ability, Stanford researchers say
By By Bjorn Carey | 15 Oct 2012
Finding compounds that can help fight cancer
12 Oct 2012
US scientists Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win chemistry Nobel
10 Oct 2012
Their research showed how cells in the body respond to stimuli, such as a rush of adrenalin or an increase in blood pressure – a discovery that is helping the development of more effective drugs
How cancer cells break free from tumours
10 Oct 2012
Although tumour metastasis causes about 90 per cent of cancer deaths, the exact mechanism that allows cancer cells to spread from one part of the body to another is not well understood
Learning requires rhythmical activity of neurons
28 Sep 2012
Making and breaking heterochromatin
26 Sep 2012
Study of giant viruses shakes up tree of life
17 Sep 2012
Tracking stem cell reprogramming
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 17 Sep 2012
Probing matters of the heart
By By Anne Trafton | 15 Sep 2012
Deciphering the language of transcription factors
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 13 Sep 2012
Genes that suppress tumours vital to regulating blood precursor cells: study
By By Kim Irwin | 12 Sep 2012
Weapon-wielding marine microbes may protect populations from foes
By By Denise Brehm, Civil and Environmental Engineeri | 12 Sep 2012
In some populations, natural antibiotics are produced by a few individuals whose closest relatives carry genes conferring resistance.
Discovery makes sense of molybdenum mystery
By By Quinn Phillips | 10 Sep 2012
Yale team finds fossil DNA not dead in human genome
By By Bill Hathaway | 07 Sep 2012
Yale researchers using sophisticated data mining and statistical models have discovered that many pseudogenes — stretches of fossil DN — may not be quite dead after all
Researchers identify biochemical functions for most of the human genome
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 06 Sep 2012
Only about 1 per cent of the human genome contains gene regions that code for proteins, raising the question of what the rest of the DNA is doing. Scientists have now begun to discover the answer