Liver injury is an independent risk factor for multiple organ dysfunction and high mortality in patients with sepsis. However, the pathological mechanisms and therapeutic strategies for ...

By removing a gene to stunt cane toads at their tadpole stage, scientists hope they may have found a way to make the invader ...

The Ca2+ stored in the cellular endoplasmic reticulum (ER) plays a crucial role in protein folding and lipid transfer, and its impairment leads to cellular ER stress. When chronic cellular ER stress ...

Research led by Children's Hospital of Fudan University in China has found that a gene called pancreatic progenitor cell ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a previously unrecognized role of mitochondrial protein synthesis in the maintenance of intracellular iron distribution. Disruption of this process was found to ...

Scientists say they have discovered how a group of proteins linked to Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis act as 'guardians' of mitochondria, small organelles, or subunits, within a ...

A research team from the International Research Center for Medical Sciences (IRCMS) at Kumamoto University has identified a ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have developed a vector that integrates the Cre enzyme gene with the specific ... Cre can remove the DNA sequence (knock out). Furthermore, by changing ...

Genetically modified, cannibal tadpoles may be the solution to Australia’s nearly century-old invasive cane toad problem.