human biology

He added that the new work lends credence to the idea that these unusual DNA shapes may play an essential role in human biology, perhaps by regulating gene expression. The folded shape of the i-motif only occurs in a relatively small region of a genome — sticking out like a bumpy knot in the smooth ...

Rock shards from the toolmaking of the ancient hunter-gatherers are spread out on a lab table where sophomore Alexa Rome and junior Aditi Majoe, both anthropology and human biology majors, pore over them with magnifying glasses. Many of the shards are barely bigger than a thumbnail — likely the ...

The goal of the project is to “map every cell in the human body as a resource to understand and improve human health and disease,” Chan wrote in a Facebook post announcing the new funding. The idea is to have an encyclopedic understanding of human biology, giving scientists a resource on the same ...

Robotic implants are a promising technological advancement that may pave the way for a safe and reliable method for tissue regeneration. Researchers engineered and tested robotic implants that fit over the esophagus to determine if they can help tissue growth and regeneration.

Dr William Johnson, from the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, emphasizes in the journal Annals of Human Biology that the construct of 'healthy obesity' is limited. This is because categorizing a population using cut-offs (e.g., BMI > 30 kg/m2 and blood pressure ...

The company uses tools like advanced human genetics to unravel complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses, by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. The biomanufacturing plant ...

Weekends are a human invention (we all remember Maggie Smith on Downton Abbey's incredulity when they were introduced to Britain in the early 20th century), and their disruption isn't built into human biology. Dr. Mohammad Amin from the Stony Brook Medicine Sleep Disorders Center tells Bustle that it ...

Rather than using mouse models, the results of which don't usually translate well to human biology, the Gladstone researchers experimented with human cells instead. The team gathered skin cells from Alzheimer's patients with two apoE4 genes, as well as some from people with two apoE3 genes without ...

Iris West becoming her own badass Speedster now feels like a distant daydream, because The Flash is back to its somewhat frustrating Season 4 status quo in the Kevin Smith-directed “Null and Annoyed.” But one compelling plotline seemingly confirms a new theory about meta-humans in the Arrowverse ...

A newfound organ, the interstitium, is seen here beneath the top layer of skin, but is also in tissue layers lining the gut, lungs, and urinary systems, as well as those surrounding blood vessels and the fascia between muscles. Photo: Jill Gregory via Mount Sinai Health System. A new look deep into the ...

Another dramatic development in the last decade is gene editing with CRISPR/Cas9, enabling us to not only manipulate human biology, but also to potentially dictate our evolutionary future. The prospect of human enhancement elicits enthusiasm due to the vast opportunities to redesign ourselves, yet skepticism about how ...

Both new technologies are rooted in the most fascinating of all the topics in human biology—how we reproduce." Both kinds of dressing, according to researchers, have advantages in the wound-healing space. The soy-based nanofibers—consisting of cellulose acetate and soy protein hydrolysate—are ...

Both of these new technologies are rooted in the most fascinating of all the topics in human biology—how we reproduce." In a similar way to fibronectin fibers, the research team used RJS to spin ultra-thin soy fibers into wound dressings. In experiments, the soy and cellulose-based dressing demonstrated a ...

But achieving this goal is particularly challenging since muscle maturation takes place across several months from embryo to birth and onward—far longer than the five weeks during which iPS-derived muscles are cultured. "There are struggles about that because this is human biology, and in the human ...

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Genomic data firm Global Gene has partnered with the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) to sequence Indian populations in order to uncover the role of genetic variation in human biology and disease. According to Global Gene, the partners will sequence the exomes of ...

... excretion (ADME), and drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics (DMPK); customized human tissues as living, dynamic models of human biology or disease, for use in drug discovery and development, and three-dimensional human tissues for clinical applications, such as blood vessels for bypass grafting, ...

This quarter, she is a TA for “Global Public Health” offered by the Human Biology Program, and “One in Five: The Law, Politics, and Policy of Campus Sexual Assault” offered by Stanford Law. Next quarter, she will be a TA for “Theories and Practices of Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Nonprofit Sector” ...

Amidst rising global nuclear tensions, SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk is calling for drastic action. He wants humans to colonize Mars—stat. An MIT team designed the Redwood Forest, a series of forest habitats inside open, public domes. “It's important to get a self-sustaining base on Mars because ...

Dr Mason said the groundbreaking research would allow researchers to more fully understand the effects of space travel on human biology. “This study represents one of the most comprehensive views of human biology. It really sets the bedrock for understanding molecular risks for space travel, as well as ...

The name of Paul Marasco's lab says it all: the Laboratory for Bionic Integration. Here, technology and human biology come together. And the lab's latest project shows the potential of this approach: Marasco's team used a vibrating gadget and a neat perceptual illusion to give amputees a natural feeling of ...

... their children could be held legally responsible for any unforeseen problems. “What if the child later objects to having been 'designed?' ” he asked. The moral obligation, Tony Cusano wrote on Facebook, “will be to stay out of the way” until scientists better understand the complexity of human biology.

Mini-organ models promise enormous advantages for understanding basic human biology, teasing apart human disease processes, and offering an accurate testing ground for finding or vetting drug therapies. And by creating personalized organoids from the reprogrammed cells of patients, scientists could ...

The evolution of human biology should be considered part and parcel with the evolution of humanity itself, proposes Nicole Creanza, assistant professor of biological sciences. She is the guest editor of a new themed issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, the oldest scientific journal in the world, that ...

Laurence Hurley, a professor of medical chemistry at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study, tells the paper that the study lends credence to the idea that unusual DNA shapes may play an essential role in human biology. I-motifs may help the body control when genes make proteins, ...

Students looking to add general biology and human biology to their schedule in the Fall Semester might have noticed they had trouble finding classes when registration opened March 19. “When I went to register for my classes, I was confused as to why no biology courses were available," said senior ...

It's a groundbreaking genetic engineering technique normally reserved for research labs, but this year more than 40 undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts & Science's human biology program had a chance to work hands-on with CRISPR, a research tool helping to revolutionize the field of molecular ...