English is becoming more important everywhere, including Switzerland. Indeed, so much so that purists here are concerned that the number of anglicisms in our…
• First large, phase III randomized trial reporting final results on a patient population of significantly advanced age and with coexisting medical conditions…
In this process, the blood vessels involved go through different phases of a common choreography, in which the splitting and the rearrangement of endothelial…
The receptor for advanced glycation-end prod-ucts (RAGE) has been shown to play a central role not only in acute or chronic inflammatory diseases but also in…
The usage of clinical patient data for research im-poses risks concerning privacy and informational self-determination of the patient. The gold standard for…
New technology under development at The Ohio State University is paving the way for low-cost electronic devices that work in direct contact with living tissue…
A German-French research team has constructed a new model that explains how the so-called pseudogap state forms in high-temperature superconductors. The…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a report detailing that the amount companies spent on U.S. research and development (R&D) during 2010…
After 5 years of innovative research, Professor WANG Jianhua and his group, from the State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of the Water Cycle in…
The new framework may lead to the creation of cleaner, more sustainable, and nontoxic batteries, and other sources of chemical power. The research was…
Think of it as patches on a quilt, says Erika Zavaleta, UCSC associate professor of environmental studies. Each patch may be a diverse habitat of plants,…
NOAA's GOES-14 satellite captured a visible image of Andrea at 2:31 p.m. EDT. The center of Andrea was near Fayetteville, North Carolina at the time, and the…
In the southern Amazon rainforest, fires below the forest treetops, or “understory fires,” have been hidden from view from NASA satellites that detect actively…
These findings, reported today in Nature Neuroscience, also offer newfound understanding as to what goes on at the molecular level when this process becomes…
Mathematics has been and still is a tool box that can be used in a wide variety of applications. In the recent two decades though, mathematics has turned into…
How strongly do emotions impact on taste perception? This question has been explored by psychologist Petra Platte and her study group at the University of…