The Kobe University endocrinologist OGAWA Wataru unraveled the physiological role of the different versions of a signal molecule that links exercise and its effects. They found that mice lacking a ...

The MYCN oncoprotein plays a key role in starting, advancing and making it difficult to treat various human cancers. When MYCN is overactive, especially in high-risk neuroblastoma, the tumors become ...

Betaine is a small molecule found in foods like beets and spinach, but the body also makes it on its own. In this study, it ...

In a groundbreaking review paper published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, scientists have shed new light on the role of GABA, a key signaling molecule in the brain. Researchers from the Center for ...

The seemingly magical regrowth of salamander tails and starfish arms after injury has always captured the attention of scientists. In recent years, they have also been excited about the spiny mouse, a ...

Scientists from Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University, together with international collaborators, have developed a ...

A newly developed molecule brings together two powerful immunotherapy strategies in one treatment. Researchers at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, have demonstrated ...

Some people lose weight slower than others after workouts, and a research team found a reason. They studied what happens to mice that cannot produce signal molecules that respond specifically to short ...