Methylene blue, an affordable synthetic dye, has been shown to be highly effective at blocking transmission of the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum from patients to mosquito hosts.
Richard S. Mann, PhD, and colleagues have solved the longstanding puzzle of why a single transcription factor can turn on many genes in a test tube, but only a few genes in a live organism.
Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have found the first direct evidence that an acquired trait can be inherited without any DNA involvement.
