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Zidovudine (INN) or azidothymidine (AZT) (also called ZDV) is an antiretroviral drug, the first approved for treatment of HIV. It is...

Joe Lutkenhaus describes how a β strand-to-α helix transition activates MinE and sets up oscillatory waves of MinE and MinD along...

Chris Garcia explains how the strength of the receptor-ligand interaction—not receptor conformational changes—tunes signaling duration. ...

Dr. Edward Morrisey at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Medicine reports on a new way to make induced pluripotent stem...

Gliadel® Wafer (polifeprosan 20 with carmustine implant) is indicated in newly diagnosed patients with high-grade malignant glioma as an adjunct to...

An electron transport chain associates electron carriers (such as NADH and FADH2) and mediating biochemical reactions that produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP),...

Glycolysis (from glycose, an older term for glucose + -lysis degradation) is the metabolic pathway that converts glucose, C6H12O6, into pyruvate,...

CXCR4, also called fusin, is an alpha-chemokine receptor specific for stromal-derived-factor-1 (SDF-1 also called CXCL12), a molecule endowed with potent chemotactic...

Color blindness, a color vision deficiency, is the inability to perceive differences between some of the colors that others can distinguish....

Metastasis, is the spread of a disease from one organ or part to another non-adjacent organ or part. Only malignant tumor...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical treatment involving the implantation of a medical device called a brain pacemaker, which sends...

The conduction of nerve impulses relies upon the movement of electrically charge ions across the nerve cell membrane. When a nerve...

The first readily identified symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are usually short-term memory loss and visual-spatial confusion. These initial symptoms progress from...

Coronary bypass surgery is a common procedure used to divert blood around blocked arteries in the heart. Coronary bypass surgery remains...

RNA interference (also called "RNA-mediated interference", abbreviated RNAi) is a mechanism for RNA-guided regulation of gene expression in which double-stranded ribonucleic...

Transgenic technology used to deliberately alter the genome of an organism by the transfer of a gene or genes from another...

Antibodies are Y-shaped proteins that are found in blood or other bodily fluids of vertebrates, and are used by the immune...

Gene expression is the process by which the inheritable information in a gene, such as the DNA sequence, is made into...

Osteoporosis is a disease of bone - leading to an increased risk of fracture. In osteoporosis the bone mineral density (BMD)...