For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon ...

Patterns of neural activity known as alpha waves, long thought to originate in the thalamus, may actually stem from a different brain region entirely. Amanda was an associate editor at The Scientist, ...

The function of p110 alpha in the body has eluded researchers for over a decade but a new approach to generating mouse models, has allowed investigators from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research's ...

(London, April 12) -- A study published by Nature today has defined the function of p110 alpha, the flag-ship molecule of the eight member PI3K family, which is one of the most frequently activated ...

American EV maker Alpha Motors has a new addition to its growing lineup of retro-inspired electric vehicles. Based on the Saga four-door electric sedan that first debuted at last year's LA Auto Show, ...

One hundred forty-nine young healthy Japanese males, recruited at random from Kyoto University, participated in each examination after written informed consent was obtained. Of these, 93 were subjects ...

Breast cancer patients who become resistant to tamoxifen may have low levels of a protein called Rho GDI-alpha, according to a study published online March 30 in the Journal of the National Cancer ...

In the avian embryo, vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) in the aortic arch (elastic) arteries originate in the neural crest, whereas other VSMC develop from local mesoderm. These two lineages have ...