Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, Boston Medical Center, and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, have developed a software platform to ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the "dark ...

Researchers can easily assess what genes are being expressed in a tissue by using a method like RT-PCR that precisely quantifies gene activity, or western blots that identify protein levels. But those ...

In mammalian physiology, adipose tissue has many important roles, including in energy storage, metabolism, lactation and non-shivering thermogenesis. Distinct types and depots of this dynamic ...

As a chronic pro-inflammatory disease, obesity is closely associated with the development of various diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancers. Obesity is now a major ...