A novel therapy designed to attack tumors in patients with a genetic mutation in either BRCA1 or BRCA2, slowed tumor growth in 85 percent of advanced breast…
Two recent international studies are poised to change the way scientists view the crucial relationship between Earth's climate and the carbon cycle. These…
These findings are being published in the July 6, 2010, edition of the journal Chest.LAM is a rare but serious lung disease that affects women, causing…
Investigators at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have discovered a way that may help ovarian cancer patients who no longer respond to…
Dr. Sridhar Reddy Chirasani, Professor Helmut Kettenmann and Dr. Rainer Glass (all MDC) and Dr. Michael Synowitz (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin) have…
More than 20 million people suffer strokes each year. Many patients acquire brain injuries that affect their movement and language abilities, which results in…
For the study, researchers examined research data on 949 people with an average age of 79 from the Framingham Heart Study. At the start of the study,…
The new findings, published June 22 in the Online First issue of the journal Plant Physiology, shed light on the connection between flowering and freezing…
According to lead researcher Lianfa Li of LREIS, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, “This improved…
Assistant Professor of Biology Mitch McVey and his research team report that DNA polymerase theta, or PolQ, promotes an inaccurate repair process, which can…
The researchers evaluated the result against spatially explicit process models including the leading model LPJmL from PIK. Tropical ecosystems such as rain…
Dr. Caroline Kabiru and a team of researcher from the African Population and Health Research Center , Nairobi, Kenya conducted the study. They noted, “Overall,…
The scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, who 'fathered' the Digital Embryo have now given it wings, creating…
The past few years have given rise to a growing number of microrobots, miniaturized mobile machines designed to perform specific tasks. And though spectators…
“We focused on a socioeconomic position factor such as educational level and health factors such as limitations to daily activity. By studying this…
Arsenic is a poisonous chemical element found in minerals and it is present in oil. High levels of arsenic in seawater can enable the toxin to enter the food…