Dr William Yim had the opportunity to collaborate with Toshiaki Iitaka from Riken Advanced Science Institute and Prof John Tse from Canada’s University of…
For much of the time our T cells—the white blood cells that act as the police of the immune system—are in what immunologists call a “quiescent state,” a sort…
Those vegetables you had for dinner may have once been protected by an immune system akin to the one that helps you fight disease. Scientists from the U.S….
WHAT:Using a monkey model of AIDS, scientists have identified a vaccine-generated immune-system response that correlates with protection against infection by…
What causes a virus to suddenly begin infecting large numbers of people?Scientists have long known that the process they call “viral emergence” involves a wide…
University of Oregon researcher Richard Taylor is on a quest to grow flowers that will help people who've lost their sight, such as those suffering from…
DNA from Helicobacter pylori, a common stomach bacteria, minimizes the effects of colitis in mice, according to a new study by University of Michigan Medical…
Their full functionality and security against fatigue and degradation has to be designed and assured for a service life of at least twenty years. Meanwhile,…
When a person's ego is threatened—by doing poorly on a task, by being told they're not as good as they hoped—people sometimes repair their self-worth by…
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Americans are spending about half their food budget in restaurants. As it is widely known, food…
A group of researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing has discovered that a protein called MTERF4 combines with…
Found in the remote desert near the town of Marree in northern South Australia, the fossilised skeleton belonged to an ichthyosaur, a dolphin-like marine…
This technology describes an active passenger car headrest with moveable leading bars, as well as a headrest body to that end.Further Information: PDF GINo…
This technology, describes a hand prosthesis which encloses several fingers and a thumb and allows a huge number of different movements of the hand and grasp…
Together with Terry Callaghan, a researcher at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Margareta is the editor of the two chapters on snow and permafrost. “The…
A new blood test that will diagnose Alzheimer's disease may soon hit the market, thanks to an innovative study from the Research Institute of the McGill…
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