Copper and Cancer.
The paper: Brady, D.C. et al. (2014) “Copper is required for oncogenic BRAF signalling and tumorigenesis.” Nature 509:492-496. doi:10.1038/nature13180 Subject...
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Sex, Stress, and Pain in experimental design
The paper: Sorge, R.E. et al (2014) “Olfactory exposure to males, including men, causes stress and related analgesia in rodents.” Nature Methods. Published...
Mechanisms of evolution
The paper: Leiby, N. and Marx, C.J. (2014) Metabolic Erosion Primarily Through Mutation Accumulation, and Not Tradeoffs, Drives Limited Evolution of Substrate Specificity...
Single mutation linked to Crohn’s Disease
The paper: Murthy, A. et al. (2014) A Crohn’s disease variant in Atg16l1 enhances its degradation by caspase 3. Nature 506:546-562. doi:10.1038/nature13044 Subject...
Growth Factor Nasal Spray Repairs Mouse Brains
The paper: Scafidi, J. et al. (2014) Intranasal epidermal growth factor treatment rescues neonatal brain injury. Nature 506: 230-236. doi:10.1038/nature12880 Subject...