Human Biology Archives - Page 2 of 5

11/30/2018

Discovering a new compound that illuminates the sulfur cycle

Almost 20 years ago, the University of Delaware’s Tom Hanson started studying the bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum (Cba. tepidum), an organism

11/08/2018

Quantitative 3D analysis of bone tools sheds light on ancient manufacture and use: Novel technique provides controlled experimental protocol for archeological investigations

Quantitative three-dimensional analysis of bone wear patterns can provide insight into the manufacture and use of early human tools, according

11/02/2018

People link body shapes with personality traits

When we meet new people, our first impressions of their personality may depend, at least in part, on their body

10/26/2018

Normal function of ALS and dementia linked gene determined for the first time

The normal function of a gene associated with the neurodegenerative diseases amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) has

09/04/2018

Body temperature regulation: How fever comes

The appearance of fever is associated with the release in the hypothalamus of a lipid compound called prostaglandin E2 (PGE2),

08/20/2018

Autism linked to egg cells’ difficulty creating large proteins

New work from Carnegie’s Ethan Greenblatt and Allan Spradling reveals that the genetic factors underlying fragile X syndrome, and potentially

08/10/2018

Is your lung cancer really ROS1-negative? False negatives in common tests for ROS1 in lung cancer

Drugs like crizotinib are used to treat patients with ROS1-positive lung cancer. But which patients are ROS1-positive? A University of

08/01/2018

DNA repair after CRISPR cutting not at all what people thought: Involvement of Fanconi anemia DNA repair pathway provides opportunity to steer repair outcome

Despite high hopes and high investment in CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, scientists still have a lot to learn about how it

07/28/2018

New screening approach reveals importance of microRNAs in papillomavirus life cycle

The discovery of microRNAs encoded by papillomaviruses supports the important role of these small molecules in persistent infection, according to

07/25/2018

‘Mutational burden’ of human induced pluripotent stem cells

The therapeutic potential of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which are capable of becoming almost any type of cell