The researchers discovered that the compound, indirubin, both blocks the migration of glioblastoma cells, preventing their spread to other areas of the brain,…
Ohio State University researchers are leveraging powerful supercomputers to investigate one of the key observational probes of “dark energy,” the mysterious…
When LDN is combined with chemotherapy, there is an additive inhibitory action on tumorigenesis. This discovery, reported in the July 2011 issue of…
Zhao-Qing Luo, the associate professor of biological sciences who led the study, said the team discovered a new enzyme used by the bacterium Legionella…
Based on a new extensive analysis of the 2000 and 2010 censuses by Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, the Greater Houston metropolitan area…
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) soil scientist Timothy Gish and ARS micrometeorologist John Prueger led the investigation, which looked at the field…
What looks like a spongy ball wrapped in strands of yarn — but a lot smaller — could be key to unlocking better methods for catalysis, artificial…
But as the technology has improved, these ventricular assist devices commonly operate in patients for years, including in former vice-president Dick Cheney,…
In an international joint project, scientists are now testing prosthetic pumping systems, in which coatings increase the longevity of heart valves. At the same…
“The common belief is that teens don't want to be around their parents very much, and that teens are just too busy for regular meals with the family,” she…
Chronicled in a new episode in the American Chemical Society's award-winning “Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions” podcast series, now online, it involved…
Janna Beckerman, an associate professor of botany and plant pathology, said that extensive, long-term use of four popular fungicides has led to resistances in…
Neptune is the most distant major planet in our solar system. German astronomer Johann Galle discovered the planet on September 23, 1846. At the time, the…
Invasive plant species in Chile pose a higher threat to its neighbour, Argentina, than vice versa. This was concluded by scientists from the University of…
So that tissue can be produced to replicate the body’s natural tissue, knowledge of the interaction between cells in a three-dimensional framework and the…
An international research team led by Professor Clemens Steegborn, University of Bayreuth, currently detected a system of biochemical signals and processes…