A milestone in the history of renewable energy occurred in the year 2008 when more new wind-turbine power generation capacity was added in the U.S. than new…
The DNA molecule — the elegant, twin-stranded necklace of life in all cells — gets broken and repaired all the time. Breaks are caused by the body's metabolic…
The study, which also involved the University of East Anglia (UK) and other global institutions, is part of the annual carbon budget update by the Global…
Many of these genes are also known to act on body weight regulation or biological pathways related to fat metabolism. This large new study of more than 100,000…
Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study found that there is no link between localized prostate…
The focus will be on applications and technological requirements for carbon nanomaterials, especially in the fields of lightweight construction, mobility,…
The molecular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) couples ATP hydrolysis
to conformational changes driving a reaction cycle that is required
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Indiana University School of Medicine researchers used a modified lentivirus to introduce a potent anti-melanoma T cell receptor gene into the hematopoietic…
Giant stones have traditionally required complete removal of the salivary gland. Building upon their success with the combination of salivary endoscopic…
Many studies support the assertion that moderate drinking is beneficial when it comes to cardiovascular health, and for the first time scientists have…
Scientists have simulated, for the first time, the merger of two black holes of vastly different sizes, with one mass 100 times larger than the other. This…
The new results suggest violence prevention strategies need to focus more on local inequalities, especially to protect vulnerable adolescent girls.The survey…
The department of nuclear medicine at the university hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Munich Technical University today started clinical use testing…
“The discovery of toxic darts could eventually lead to new ways to control disease-causing pathogens,” said Stephanie K. Aoki, first author and postdoctoral…
The resulting images and data shed new light on the nature and composition of comets, according to the University of Maryland-led EPOXI science team, which…
Watkins and her colleagues in CU-Boulder's department of psychology and neuroscience discovered that a single injection of a compound called ATL313 — an…