Scientists in Finland have measured the heaviest known nucleus to undergo proton emission, discovering the rare isotope ...

Scientists have uncovered how a newly discovered gene, NEK1, in which mutations have been linked to ALS cases, disrupts the function of the motor neuron and causes it to degenerate and die.

This microscope photo provided by the McLean Hospital's Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center in January 2024 shows cells in the caudate nucleus structure of the brain in a person with Huntington's ...

"Variations in 3D structure seem to be about fine-tuning," some function inside organisms, Dudchenko said. However, exactly what is being tweaked remains a mystery.

At two gene loci the researchers studied, increased looping in the absence of ORC2 isolated a known gene enhancer from the ...

A version of this article appears in the February 22, 1997 issue of Science News.