Biology-based field of study represents 'new frontier' for infectious diseases discovery

Team studies the changes in gene expression levels in blood in more than 15,000 people around the world

New research from the University of Rochester reveals that our brains can detect and process sound delays that are too short to be noticed consciously

Scientists are developing a unique targeting and delivery system that uses a peptide, or amino acid chain, to seek and destroy cancer cells

Research brings us closer to creating prosethic limbs that recreate a sense of touch

Deregulation of pathway is associated with diseases ranging from diabetes to cancer to epilepsy

More than half of biomedical researchers today do not authenticate their cell lines; Cite cost and time constraints as main barriers to making authentication routine

Findings can lead to gut replacement therapy in people with intestinal deficiencies

Zhuoyi Huang, PhD, postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Dr. Fuli Yu, at the Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, talks to contributing editor Tanuja Koppal, PhD, about the work they have been doing to address the computational challenges associated with analysis of high throughput next-generation sequencing (NGS) data.

Key differences between PCR and qPCR

Team has developed a highly effective in vitro technique for producing light sensitive retina cells from human embryonic stem cells

Scientists from around the world catalogued 88 million variants