Alzheimer's disease has two key hallmarks: accumulation of amyloid protein plaques outside brain cells and of neurofibrillary tangles of tau protein inside brain cells. The plaques appear first, and then the tangles, giving the impression that one causes the other. However, evidence of this is...
The American Heart Association presented its prestigious Research Achievement Award to Jan L. Breslow, M.D., of Rockefeller University, New York City, for "transcendent discoveries" of genes encoding for components of the body's lipid transport system and how their regulation and individual...
This Rob Dunbar is NOT Robin Dunbar the Archaeologist.
Rob Dunbar hunts for data on our climate from 12,000 years ago, finding clues inside ancient seabeds and corals and inside ice sheets. His work is vital in setting baselines for fixing our current climate -- and in tracking the rise of...