One of the most important structures in a cell is the nuclear pore complex — a tiny yet complicated channel through which information flows in and out of the cell’s nucleus, directing all other cell activity.

Training the brain to reduce pain could be a promising approach for treating phantom limb pain and complex regional pain syndrome, according to an internationally known neuroscience researcher speaking today at the American Pain Society's Annual Scientific Meeting.

Nicole Soriano had headaches before but nothing like the one that struck in the middle of one summer night. A coincidence led nine days later to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where a rare type of migraine was diagnosed and treated - but any moment during that time could have been disastrous.

Using a refined technique for trapping and manipulating nanoparticles, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have extended the trapped particles' useful life more than tenfold.* This new approach, which one researcher likens to "attracting moths," promises to give experimenters the trapping time they need to build ...

According to a study in The American Journal of Bioethics, physicians and patients need assistance in order to deal with complex moral issues. Physicians often have the tendency to label their patients as 'difficult' when things become difficult, however, according to the author of the new study it actually ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The flexible properties of hydrogels highly absorbent, gelatinous polymers that shrink and expand depending on environmental conditions such as humidity, pH and temperature have made them ideal for applications from contact lenses to baby diapers and adhesives. In recent years, researchers have ...

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A new technique predictably generates complex, wavy shapes and may help improve drug delivery and explain natural patterns from brain folds to bell peppers.

Claudia Bieber from the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology (FIWI) of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, and fellow scientists analysed a capture-recapture data set on common dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius) to investigate the life-history strategy of this species. These small rodents are about the size and weight of a wood ...

Claudia Bieber from the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology (FIWI) of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, and fellow scientists analysed a capture-recapture data set on common dormice ( Muscardinus avellanarius ) to investigate the life-history strategy of this species. These small rodents are about the size and weight of ...

The mitotic spindle, an apparatus that segregates chromosomes during cell division, may be more complex than the standard textbook picture suggests, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

(University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna) Unlike many of their rodent cousins, common dormice hibernate. Their life history strategies have now been investigated, with surprising results: Common dormice give birth to young either as early as possible after waking up from hibernation or as late as possible, just in time ...

Anyone who's tried a weekend home improvement project knows that to do a job right, you've got to have the right tools. For cells, these "tools" are proteins encoded by genes. The right genes for the job are turned on only in the specific cells where they are needed. And ...