Specialist Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Fellow, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, ...

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Two companion papers out of Rutgers University — published June 14 in Nature Metabolism and Nature Communications—have traced ...

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. has synthesized tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type 6 (PTPN6; PTP-1C; SH-PTP1) activators reported to be useful for the treatment of autoimmune disease and ...

Scientists at Michigan Medicine have uncovered how a common genetic variant linked to high blood pressure causes long-term changes in blood vessel structure—raising the risk of heart attacks and ...

Back-to-back studies map complementary hunger and satiety pathways, offering clues to refine weight-loss drugs.

The DGIST research team is the first to identify "switch proteins," which directly inhibit the function of NMDA receptors, and explain how the related mechanism works. The key clue this research ...

Researchers used GPS-like tracking to observe how a key G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) moves, revealing the core mechanism behind vital body functions. G protein-coupled receptors are embedded in ...

Taste, pain, or response to stress—nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches called G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Researchers at the University ...