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From many mice, unexpected genius

10/31/2018

Researchers find that some individual mice are smarter than their fellow rodents, which can provide insights into decision-making. Read the story »

How a sleeping cancer awakens and metastasizes

9/27/2018

Chronic inflammation can reawaken dormant cancer cells and spur metastasis. It may be preventable Read the story »

Progress toward improved Wilson’s disease drug

6/27/2018

Encouraging early results in a potential new treatment for Wilson's disease. Read the story »

Researchers discover new type of lung cancer

6/25/2018

Researchers have discovered a new form of lung cancer. Read the story »

Organoid profiling personalizes treatments for pancreatic cancer

5/31/2018

Pancreatic organoids grown from patients' tumors make precision medicine possible Read the story »

How pancreatic cancer spreads after surgery

5/17/2018

Researchers have solved a mystery about how pancreatic cancer spreads Read the story »

Study reveals a way to make prostate cancer cells run out of energy and die

4/3/2018

In lethal prostate cancer, the gene PTEN is often missing. In such cases, one effective treatment may be to administer drugs that inhibit mitochondria Read the story »

Unique communication strategy discovered in pathway controlling plant growth

3/22/2018

Scientists have identified a receptor on plant stem cells that can issue different instructions about how the plant will grow. Read the story »

The secret to tripling the number of grains in sorghum and perhaps other staple crops

2/26/2018

A simple genetic modification can triple grain production in sorghum, a drought-tolerant plant that is an important source of food and animal feed. Read the story »

geographic distribution of 13 rice varieties

More rice, please: 13 rice genomes reveal ways to keep up with ever-growing population

2/1/2018

Rice provides 20% of calories consumed. As the population grows toward 9 billion and the climate shifts, we'll need to grow more rice in more places. Read the story »

Evolving sets of gene regulators explain some of our differences from other primates

1/29/2018

What makes us different from our primate relatives? Gene regulation is one important evolutionary factor Read the story »

New method to determine before surgery which prostate tumors pose a lethal threat

12/1/2017

The news about prostate cancer can be confusing. It’s the third most common cancer type among Americans. Read the story »

First cell-type census of mouse brains: surprises about structure, male-female differences

10/5/2017

A multiyear project in the Brain Initiative, qBrain is already revealing the brain as never before. Read the story »

Neuron types in the brain are defined by gene activity that shapes their communication patterns

9/21/2017

Neurons are defined by determining which cells they connect with and how they communicate across synapses Read the story »

Plant geneticists develop a new application of CRISPR to break yield barriers in crops

9/14/2017

Mutating regulatory regions varies yield traits the way a dimmer switch controls a light bulb Read the story »