Yale School of Medicine researchers have discovered a protein that is the missing link in the complicated chain of events that lead to Alzheimer’s disease, they report in the Sept. 4 issue of the journal Neuron. Researchers also found that blocking the...
Viruses such as West Nile and dengue have an intriguing way to hijack cells once they have been internalized by the cell. The illustration shows a flavivirus invading a cell by fusing its lipid membrane with the membrane of an endosome, which delivers the...
The basics of conception are familiar to any high school freshman biology student, yet scientists have yet to find the initial molecular mechanisms that set off the cascade of events that form a developing embryo.Yale University geneticists report online...
Stem cells and real estate have this in common: the most important thing is location, location, and location.
Stem cells are extensively studied because of their ability to generate a wide variety of tissue types — from new heart, liver and even brain...