Nov 21, 2016 | Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Systems Biology
After working for years within the small community of scientists studying rare genetic disorders, Prof. Anthony Futerman today finds himself invited to large scientific meetings. This is because the genetic defects behind Gaucher’s disease, the object of Futerman’s...
Oct 31, 2016 | Biochemistry, Brain & Behavior, Life Sciences
We might not be aware of our internal “body clocks” until we are jetlagged, but scientists continue to puzzle over what drives them. Now, a study published on October 20 in Cell Metabolism has found that changes in surrounding oxygen levels can reset circadian clocks...
Oct 11, 2016 | Bacteria, Biochemistry, Culture, Evolution
One of the biggest advances in the history of humankind is the development of antibiotics. They have saved untold millions of lives; rendered toothless diseases that were killers for millennia; and are one of the factors behind humanity’s increasingly long lifespan....
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