A team of Canadian and Finnish scientists has identified a protein able to stimulate the production of T-cells, the white blood cells involved in the recognition and the elimination of infectious agents. The discovery by researchers of the Institute for Research in...

PASADENA, Calif.--The sea floor off the coast of Eureka, California, is home to a diverse assemblage of microbes that scavenge methane from cold deep-sea vents. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a technique to directly capture these cells,...

SAN FRANCISCO and PALO ALTO, CA - Roche and the Institute for OneWorld Health announced today that they have entered into a collaboration under which OneWorld Health will screen compounds from the Roche library to identify a potential new drug for the treatment of...

A closer alliance between computational and experimental researchers is needed to make progress towards one of biology’s most challenging goals, understanding how epigenetic marks contribute to regulation of gene expression. This emerged from a recent workshop organised by...