stress response

Discovering a new type of subnuclear body taught me how pursuing the unexpected can lead to new insights—in this case, about long noncoding RNAs and liquid-liquid phase separation in cells.

Research has repeatedly suggested that spending time in natural environments improves mental and physical well-being. Now, scientists are gathering the data needed to incorporate this phenomenon in health-care guidelines.

A brain-activated, bone-derived hormone called osteocalcin regulates the acute stress response in rodents and possibly humans.

Transmission of stress signals in E. coli is dependent on the distance between its inner and outer membranes.

After a harrowing escape from Iran, Dehesh never shied away from difficult choices to pursue a career in plant biology.

In chapter 3, “The Sense of Sensibility,” author Wendy Jones uses scenes from one of Jane Austen’s most celebrated novels to illustrate the functioning of the body’s stress response system.

Inhibiting the activity of a protein involved in the body’s stress response can ease chronic pain in mice.

Regulation of genome expression orchestrates the behavior of insect castes and the human response to social stress.

Social adversity shapes humans’ immune systems—and probably their susceptibility to disease—by altering the expression of large groups of genes.

Exercise-induced muscle metabolites protect the brain from stress-induced depression in a mouse model. 

Scientists show how cell stress both prevents and promotes cell suicide in a study that’s equally divisive.

Study suggests that REST may be a key regulator of neuronal stress and could play a role in staving off neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.

Adolescent rats exposed to stress grow into pathologically aggressive adults, behaviors that may be explained by accompanying epigenetic changes and altered brain activity.

Research in yeast shows that aneuploidy is both a consequence of and an adaptation to stress.