HDAC inhibitors are best known for their ability to turn genes on. But certain gene networks shut down in their presence, suggesting a new treatment strategy for cancer.
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HDAC inhibitors are best known for their ability to turn genes on. But certain gene networks shut down in their presence, suggesting a new treatment strategy for cancer.
Full story at National Cancer Institute
Genetic modification can redirect a plant’s resources away from an overprepared immune system and into enhanced seed production.
Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
What is stopping the biggest whales from growing even bigger?
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A surprise find leads to the first formal description of Borneo’s spectacled flowerpecker, a small, gray bird previously only glimpsed in the treetops.
Full story at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Liver tumors with a lot of cellular diversity may reprogram nearby cells to create a more hospitable microenvironment for their own survival.
Full story at National Cancer Institute
There’s more than one kind of electric eel swimming in South American rivers.
Full story at Smithsonian
Freshwater wetlands from Georgia to New York are home to a previously unrecognized species of medicinal leech.
Full story at Smithsonian
Is cognitive training worth doing?
Full story at BrainFacts
Farmers in Mexico and the southwestern Amazon improved predecessors of today’s corn for thousands of years until the crop was fully domesticated.
Full story at Smithsonian