New lead for mechanism of action of diabetes drug metformin

Researchers are able to see how frontline diabetes drug metformin alters cell glucose uptake using new…

Artificial fly brain can tell who’s who

Researchers have built a neural network that mimics the fruit fly's visual system and can distinguish…

New epigenetic drug strategy to treat cancer

Researchers have discovered that inhibiting CDK9, a DNA transcription regulator, reactivates genes that have been epigenetically…

How sleeping mammary stem cells are awakened in puberty

Scientists have discovered how the growth of milk-producing mammary glands is triggered during puberty. Sleeping stem…

Novel method to block immunosuppression in cancer

Scientists have elucidated the three-dimensional structure of an assembly of proteins operating on cells that dampen…

Novel material could make plastic manufacturing more energy-efficient

An innovative filtering material may soon reduce the environmental cost of manufacturing plastic. The material, a…

Experimental drug more effective in treating rare kidney disease

New study finds that experimental drug sparsentan is an effective treatment for the rare kidney disease…

Tracing the evolutionary origins of fish to shallow ocean waters

Coral reefs are envisioned as the seats of great biodiversity, but they may not be where…

Prevalence of HTLV-1 infection among teens and adults in Gabon remains high

New research suggests that 30 years after the first epidemiological survey of the seroprevalence of Human…

One size doesn’t fit all, when using hormone therapy to treat endometriosis

Endometriosis -- a condition caused by uterine tissue growing outside of the organ -- affects 10…