One of the most fundamental questions in biology is how a single fertilized egg produces the diverse cell types making up the body – from neurons and skin to muscle and blood – that bear the same ...

Eph Tyr kinases and ephrins can simultaneously act as receptors and ligands, allowing unidirectional or bidirectional signalling, which in turn can lead to parallel and antiparallel signalling modes ...

LMU researchers have discovered how the interplay between a key protein and an endolysosomal ion channel promotes tumor development in skin cancer. A team led by LMU pharmacologist Professor Christian ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an incurable lung disease of unknown origin with limited treatment options. Research suggests that the signaling molecule WNT5A plays a key role in the ...

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 ...

To that end, the Hughes Lab focuses on elucidating the mechanisms behind kidney development and using those insights to create kidney tissue from scratch, which could reduce the need for both dialysis ...

To understand how atherosclerosis develops, scientists studied both mice and humans with the disease. They looked at individual cells within the arteries at different stages of the disease to see how ...

Developmental biology has come of age / Donald D. Brown -- Expression and developmental regulation of the maize Spm transposable element / J.A. Banks, P. Masson and N.V. Fedoroff -- Chicken antibody ...

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 ...

Therapeutic cancer vaccines have the potential to induce durable and tumor-specific immune responses in addition to the widely used immune checkpoint blockade therapies. These vaccines aim to ...