Effects of Prenatal Drug Exposure It is important to close the gap between scientific understanding of the effects of drug exposure in the womb on brain development and public perception and policy.
How Nerve Fibers Degenerate An enzyme inside nerve cells that is crucial for nerve fibre degeneration in fruit flies and mice is identified.
Shutting the Door on Obesity Knocking out an enzyme responsible for the metabolism of fat in the intestine protects mice from obesity.
Risk Factor for Blood Diseases A common genetic sequence abnormality that enhances the likelihood of acquiring a mutation in a gene linked to blood diseases has been identified.
A Pancreatic Path Scientists have found a small compound that could direct stem cells to become insulin-secreting pancreatic beta cells.
Link between Cancer and Dietary Restriction A signalling pathway that influences how sensitive cancer cells are to the beneficial effects of dietary restriction (DR) is described.
Where Decisions Are Made Scientists have discovered that the process involved in decision making occurs in different areas of the brain's frontal lobe, depending on whether the decision is abstract or more concrete.
'Piggybac' To Pluripotency Researchers have induced pluripotency in human cells for the first time without using viral methods to deliver the reprogramming factors.
Unexpected Prion Link In Alzheimer's Disease Amyloid-beta, a protein well known for its role in Alzheimer's disease, may yield its damaging effects on neurons by binding to the cellular prion protein (PrPC).