GIST in Biological News

NAU research ties tree mortality trends to climate warming

...that tree death rates have more than doubled in recent decades in otherwise undisturbed old forestslargely a consequence of regional warming. "The gist is that we now have these long-term data sets from old trees across much of the western part of the country and one thing those forests have in common...

Forgotten but not gone -- how the brain takes care of things

... ability to learn and to remember, we can perform tasks that other living things can not even dream of. However, we are only just beginning to get the gist of what really goes on in the brain when it learns or forgets something. What we do know is that changes in the contacts between nerve cells play an i...

Basic research leads to a novel cancer therapy

...elated enzymes in tumour cell signalling networks. Clinical studies with gist patients looked into their ability to tolerate Sunitinib, as well as its ef...ed renal cell carcinoma with failed available treatment. In the case of the gist patients, it took four times longer for tumours to renew growth when treate...