Viruses

A virus is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Virus particles (known as virions) consist of two or three parts: the genetic material made from eit...

Of mice and melodies

(University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center) Singing mice are unique rodents that use song to communicate. An important underlying gene that is thought to influence the singing beh...

Evolving Genes

Researchers have designed a method that can universally test for evolutionary adaption, or positive (Darwinian) selection, in any chosen set of genes, using re-sequencing data such as that generated b...

Wang's technology may answer host of medical questions

(Washington University in St. Louis) In an engineering breakthrough, a Washington University in St. Louis biomedical researcher has discovered a way to use light and color to measure oxygen in individ...

Genes provide clues to gender disparity in human hearts

(Washington University in St. Louis) Healthy men and women show little difference in their hearts, except for small electrocardiographic disparities. But new genetic differences found by Washington Un...

Animal reservoir mystery solved

(Washington University in St. Louis) A new assay that uses mitochondrial DNA that mutates faster than nuclear DNA has allowed scientists at Washington University in St. Louis to identify one of the ma...

Key part of plants' rapid response system revealed

(Washington University in St. Louis) A cross-Atlantic collaboration between scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and the European Molecular...

$2 million to study role-switching cells in heart failure

(Washington University in St. Louis) The National Institutes of Health has awarded more than $2 million to a team of scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and InvivoSciences, a biotechnol...

Foundational concept of ecology tested by experiment

(Washington University in St. Louis) How strong are the links in food webs? An experiment at Washington University in St. Louis demonstrates that they're strong enough for a disturbance to propagate...

The effect of donor kidney volume on recipient outcomes: "dose" matters.

Cntnap2 expression in the cerebellum of Foxp2(R552H) mice, with a mutation related to speech-language disorder.

Foxp2(R552H) knock-in (KI) mice carrying a mutation related to human speech-language disorder exhibit impaired ultrasonic vocalization and poor Purkinje cell development. Foxp2 is a forkhead domain-co...

Molecular networks implicated in speech-related disorders: FOXP2 regulates the SRPX2/uPAR complex.

It is a challenge to identify the molecular networks contributing to the neural basis of human speech. Mutations in transcription factor FOXP2 cause difficulties mastering fluent speech (developmental...

FOXP2 gene and language impairment in schizophrenia: association and epigenetic studies.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is considered a language related human specific disease. Previous studies have reported evidence of positive selection for schizophrenia-associated genes specific t...

Prepublication data release, latency, and genome commons.