A research group used live tissue imaging for the first time to visualize the emergence of the mammary gland. Helsinki University research group used live tissue imaging for the first time to ...

Neuroscientist show that people with dyslexia have a weakly developed structure that is not located in the cerebral cortex, but at a subcortical processing stage; namely the white matter connectivity ...

Virtually all new analgesics approved over the past 25 years are derivatives or reformulations of opioids or aspirin-like drugs, existing drugs given for a new indication or older drugs given by a ...

This chapter presents a historical perspective of the field of developmental toxicology and then an analysis of various mechanisms by which agents cause developmental toxicity, as currently understood ...

Rachel N. Arey, Ph.D. Molecular mechanisms of learning, memory, and cognitive decline using C. elegans genetics and genomics. Hugo J. Bellen, D.V.M., Ph.D. Genetic ...

Why molecular biology needs palaeontology / S. Conway Morris -- Can the Cambrian explosion be inferred through molecular phylogeny? / H. Philippe, A. Chenuil, A. Adoutte -- Protein families in the ...

About one percent of the world population is born with a congenital heart defect, which affects about 40,000 U.S. births each year, but how these particular birth defects come about is largely unknown ...

Most cells in the bodies of living things duplicate their contents and physically separate into new cells through the process of cell division. But across many species, germ cells, those that become ...

A new study has revealed the underlying mechanism of development of antibiotic resistance among Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa). Pseudomonas is known to cause severe and often life threatening ...

Between 2% and 3% of all live-born infants are estimated to have a major developmental defect identified at birth (ICBD 1991; CDC 1995; Holmes 1997; March of Dimes 1999). The percentage increases ...