BML first blog

BOSTON--Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have found that a common cancer protein leads a second, totally different life in normal adult brain cells: It helps regulates memory formation and may be implicated in Alz… more »

It's like if you come into my house without permission, I'll depress you and drive you to suicide. Guess our bodies know how to do this kind of a thing at the molecular level. more »

For first time, scientists show an HIV vaccine impacts the genetic makeup of the virus Results suggest new vaccine strategies to debilitate viruses by tapping into this response:  A research team led by Dr. James Mullin, Professor of Microbiology at Un… more »

Genetically engineered spider silk could help overcome a major barrier to the use of gene therapy in everyday medicine, according to a new study that reported development and successful initial laboratory tests of such a material. It appears in ACS' jou… more »

How we come to express the genes of one parent over the other is now better understood through studying the platypus and marsupial wallaby---and it doesn't seem to have originated in association with sex chromosomes.Full Story> New research publish… more »

New evidence of sea-level oscillations during a warm period that started about 125,000 years ago raises the possibility of a similar scenario if the planet continues its more recent warming trend, says a research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanograp… more »

An international research team led by biologists at the University of California, Riverside and Texas A&M University has released for the first time a large and robust DNA matrix that has representation for all mammalian families. The matrix -- t… more »

Scientists at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have successfully disrupted the function of a cancer gene involved in the formation of most human tumors by tampering with the gene’s “on” switch and growth signals, rather than targeting… more »