Nearly a century after insulin was discovered, an international team of researchers including University of Utah Health scientists report that they have developed the world's smallest, fully ...

So the team concluded that Pias3 promotes rod cell development and suppresses cone cell development. Next they wanted to know if Pias3 works the same in eye cells as it does in other cells, through ...

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) signaling promote the pathology of many human diseases. Loss-of-function variants of the UPR regulator Activating Transcription ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine have identified a key to eye development — a protein that regulates how the light-sensing ...

Ever heard of conotoxins? They are bioactive peptides present in the venom of the predatory marine cone snails that are well known for their effective envenomation strategy. The conotoxins help these ...

When early mammals began scurrying around, they had one major threat to contend with: dinosaurs. To get around this tricky situation and avoid ending up on the dinosaurs’ plate, the tiny animals are ...