Anticancer compound becomes more soluble and selective after glucose is attached

Experiments reveal brain circuits that shape sensory perceptions

Experimental therapy restores normal fat metabolism in animals with atherosclerosis.

Finding suggests novel mechanism for treating epilepsy.

New technique allows scientists to track proteins known to create memories.

Improvements were seen within four weeks and generally persisted during treatment duration.

Using a powerful data-crunching technique, Johns Hopkins researchers have sorted out how a protein keeps defective genetic material from gumming up the cellular works. The protein, Dom34, appears to “rescue” protein-making factories called ribosomes when they get stuck obeying defective genetic instructions, the researchers report in the Feb. 27 issue of Cell.