Developing Cells Do Synchronized Swimming Inside the Embryo Modeling of biochemistry and biophysics shows swirling currents inside a fruit fly DURHAM, N.C. -- The very beginnings of life inside a tiny...
General Anesthesia Hijacks Sleep Circuitry to Knock You Out After 170 years, nobody was quite sure where anesthesia worked on the brain The discovery of general anesthesia 170 years ago was a medical miracle, enabling millions of...
Why Once-Promising Cancer Drugs Failed Cells use ‘battering ram’ to get around cancer drugs DURHAM, N.C. -- Nearly two decades after a class of once-promising cancer drugs called MMP...
How Turning Down the Heat Makes a Baby Turtle Male Scientists start to crack 50-year puzzle of how temperature influences a hatchling’s sex DURHAM, N.C. -- Boy or girl? For those who want to influence their...
Brain Cell’s Achilles’ Heel May Prompt Hydrocephalus Viruses can exploit a suprising weakness of cells that circulate fluid in the brain Viruses may spark hydrocephalus by exploiting a surprising weakness of cells that circulate...
Scientists Find Stomach Cells In Lung Cancer Mutation prompts lung tumor cells to morph into gut cells DURHAM, N.C. – Tumors are notoriously mixed up; cells from one part often express...
Overlooked Cell Key Player In Preventing Age-Related Vision Loss Tree-shaped retinal cells called Müller glia may provide a new therapeutic target for treating degenerative eye diseases DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke researchers have pinpointed a new therapeutic target for macular...
