The breakthrough, developed at the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures and published today in the scientific journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine,…
These could be used for future circuits based on light (photons) instead of electron – that is photonics instead of electronics. But it has proved to be…
For the first time, physicists have demonstrated that information can flow through a diamond wire.
Researchers have found that people born with a rare abnormality of their chromosomes have a 2,700-fold increased risk of a rare childhood leukaemia. In this…
These “living materials” combine the advantages of live cells, which respond to their environment, produce complex biological molecules, and span multiple…
Researchers at Imperial College London looked at temperature records and mortality figures for 2001 to 2010 to find out which districts in England and Wales…
The cause of a rare type of ovarian cancer that most often strikes girls and young women has been uncovered by an international research team led by the…
The proof of concept experiment is described in a paper published online March 23 by the journal Nature Chemical Biology.
Between 1999 and 2009, more than 450,000 Americans were killed in a traffic crashes. But in cases where alcohol was involved, death certificates frequently…
Valproic acid (VPA) is currently prescribed as an anti-seizure medication and mood stabilizer, but it is also being studied as an anticancer agent because it…
Volcanoes often occur in rift valleys, within the rift itself or on the rift flanks as e.g. in East Africa. The magma responsible for this volcanism is formed…
An international team of academics, including Professor Marco Oggioni from the University of Leicester's Department of Genetics, has studied how localised…
KIT researchers have developed microstructured lightweight construction materials of highest stability. Although their density is below that of water, their…
A study by Sofia J. Araújo, a Ramón y Cajal researcher with the Morphogenesis in Drosophila lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), elucidates…
Today, at the 43rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the…
The value of forests and tree-based ecosystems extends far beyond carbon sequestration; they are the foundation of sustainable societies.