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Israeli Neuroscientist Moshe Abeles Wins Valentino Braitenberg Award

Moshe Abeles research focuses on the functional circuits in the cerebral cortex. His books on this subject have profoundly influenced many neuroscientists….

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Munich’s got the brains

Understanding the brain – that is the ambitious research goal of Computational Neuroscience, in which scientists from biology, medicine, psychology, physics,…

Communications Media

Hasso Plattner Launches Open IT Courses to Boost Learning

Around 10,000 have already registered at the interactive Internet educational platform http://www.openhpi.de and can now start to use the first content. The…

Physics & Astronomy

A Surprisingly Bright Superbubble

Many new stars, some of them very massive, are forming in the star cluster NGC 1929, which is embedded in the nebula N44, so named because it is the 44th…

Life & Chemistry

Moving Toward Regeneration

Now, in a study published in an upcoming issue of Development, researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research describe a novel system that allowed…

Life & Chemistry

Early Activation of Immune Response Could Lead to Better Vaccines

Grégoire Lauvau, Ph.D.One way the immune system protects the body against microbes like bacteria and viruses is with memory CD8+ T cells, so named because they…

Life & Chemistry

The Beat Goes On: Research Yields Two 'Firsts' Regarding Protein Crucial to Human Cardiac Function

Using an imaging method called atomic force microscopy, Loong achieved two “firsts”: the first direct imaging of individual alpha-tropomyosin molecules, which…

Life & Chemistry

UCLA Uncovers Key Link Between Stem Cells and Immunity

The studies were done using human bone marrow, which contains all the stem cells that produce blood during postnatal life.”We felt it was especially important…

Health & Medicine

Can't smell anything? This discovery may give you hope

Scientists have restored the sense of smell in mice through gene therapy for the first time — a hopeful sign for people who can't smell anything from birth or…

Health & Medicine

'Triple-threat' approach reduces life-threatening central line infections in children with cancer

In a report in the October issue of Pediatrics, published online Sept. 3, the researchers say this triple-threat approach has prevented one in five infections…

Studies and Analyses

Obesity’s Impact on Adolescent Brain Function: New Study Insights

The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health under award number DK083537, and in part by award number 1ULIRR029892, from the National Center for…

Life & Chemistry

Infrared Spectroscopy Reveals Protein-Pharmaceutical Interactions

RUB-Researchers from the Chair for Biophysics have developed a new method for the detailed study of the interaction between pharmaceuticals and their target…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Uncover Manic Gene Insights for Mental Health

Researchers from the University of Bonn and the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim have now discovered, based on patient data and animal models,…

Technology Offerings

New Multipole Resonance Probe Enhances Plasma Diagnostics

The invention refers to a new multipole resonance probe for plasma diagnostic. The probe has a spherical symmetry which forces the resonance modes to…

Technology Offerings

Chimeric Toxins and Saponin: A New Approach in Immunotoxin Therapy

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Immunotoxins have to be administered in high doses due to low cytosolic
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New Diagnostic Marker for Celiac Disease Unveiled

Celiac disease is a worldwide autoimmune disorder characterized by gluten intolerance, and is associated with a number of serious clinical conditions. The…

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