In Germany alone every year about 400.000 people develop cancer. The radiation ther-apy is widely used as a method of treat-ment. Cancer cells will be harmed…
The work, led by Yasha Yi-a professor of the City University of New York, who is also affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York…
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Maryland report promising results from using adult stem cells from bone marrow in mice to help create…
The effect on bat populations of a deadly fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome may depend on how gregarious the bats are during hibernation, scientists…
In a strongly shifting market environment in the first half of2012 KfW held its own in its funding activities. As of 30 June 2012 already about EUR 50.4…
Using data from its unique online research platform, 23andMe, a leading personal genetics company, has identified seven single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)…
West Nile virus infections often result in flu-like symptoms that aren't life-threatening, and some in cases, infected people show no symptoms at all. But a…
Nearly 1,400 individuals from 47 different countries attended the meeting, and several different organisations and societies were represented. The European…
While current research on human age-related dementia focuses on potential new drug treatments, researchers say these findings suggest that social interventions…
Research suggests that patients with leukemia sometimes relapse because standard chemotherapy fails to kill the self-renewing leukemia initiating cells, often…
The yet-unnamed bound state, which the physicists simply refer to as “our state” in their study, applies to three identical atoms loosely bound together — a…
According to research at the Buck Institute, flies on DR shift their metabolism toward increasing fatty acid synthesis and breakdown, specifically in muscle…
Although the plumes of gas look like whiffs of smoke, they are actually billions of times less dense than the smoke from a July 4 firework. This Hubble Space…
A research team at the University of California, San Diego – led by Gary S. Firestein, professor in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at UC…
Pathways are ordered series of actions that occur as cells move from one state, through a series of intermediate states, to a final action. Because model…
It’s a challenge that’s long been one of the holy grails of quantum computing: how to create the key building blocks known as quantum bits, or qubits, that…
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