When the wing of an aircraft “feels” a threatening load or metal foams become as lightweight and solid as our bones, you know materials scientists had their…
With a vaccine directed against endogenous retroviruses, the progression of tumour growth could be significantly inhibited in a mouse model. The prophylactic…
The study reports an integrative approach to examine the mosquito's ability to smell across the 24-hour day and involved proteomic, sensory physiological, and…
The current study investigated how the vascular system is altered by smoking and whether the changes can be normalised by smoking cessation. The researchers…
To win the war against weight gain, it turns out that every skirmish matters – as long as the physical activity puts your heart and lungs to work.In a new…
The research, from Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists Lijun Xia, M.D., Ph.D., Jianxin Fu, M.D., Ph.D., and Brett Herzog, Ph.D., appears in the…
An international group of researchers led by Sebastien Gagneux from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) has now identified the origin in…
Knowing the possible evolutionary paths allows for more accurate predictions if the AIDS pathogen is likely to develop a resistance to a drug and thus if the…
Frequent acceleration and slow-down processes as well as a high utilization rate in short-distance traffic make their use profitable even when considering…
The culprits are 65 of the hottest, brightest known stars, classified as O-type stars, located 15 light-years away from the knot, towards the right edge of the…
New Chandra images of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), which is located about 26,000 light-years from Earth, indicate that less than 1 percent of the gas initially…
The new Artis Q.zen angiography system from Siemens has proven itself in everyday clinical practice. The system has been in use since November 2012 at the…
In a recent paper, researchers associated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) describe a deep-sea squid that appears to use a different…
For years, physicians around the world have watched as strain after strain of the deadly bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis evolves resistance to drugs. Over…
New research, presented at this week's Society for General Microbiology Autumn Conference, gives us a clearer understanding of how these bacteria can…
A new study has revealed that global warming is resulting in the spread of crop pests towards the North and South Poles at a rate of nearly 3 km a year. The…
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