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...
Dengue Takes Low and Slow Approach to Replication Virus hides in plain sight by being less aggressive DURHAM, N.C. – A new study reveals how dengue virus manages to reproduce itself in an...
Cells Bulge to Squeeze Through Barriers New tool in cell’s invasion machinery may help explain cancer’s ability to spread DURHAM, N.C. -- Invasive cells deploy a trick to break through tissues and spread to other parts...
Star-Shaped Brain Cells Orchestrate Neural Connections Dysfunction of intricate astrocyte cells may underlie devastating diseases like autism, schizophrenia and epilepsy Brains are made of more than a tangled net of neurons. Star-like cells called astrocytes...
