Despite grim prognoses and aggressive treatments, cancer patients suffering from malignant gliomas — primary brain tumors — often rate their quality of life…
New low-cost DNA sequencing technology applied to seeds of the species Euonymus alatus – a common ornamental planting – was crucial to identifying the gene…
Whether rich or poor, residents of the United States or China, illiterate or college graduates, parents who have books in the home increase the level of…
Physicists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have developed a quantum interface which connects light particles and atoms. The interface is based on an…
Etnangien is an antibiotic compound, which inhibits the activity of RNA-polymerases in bacteria.
In view of the fermentation process for etnangien using a…
The invention discloses molecules, which are activated,
when function of Secreted Fizzled Related Protein 1
(SFRP1) is lost. SFRP1 is known to have…
The results are important because, with the expansion of cities worldwide, migrating landbirds increasingly must pass through vast urban areas which offer very…
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decadeApril temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: +0.50 C (about 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit)…
PULPAPER, which is the leading European trade show for the paper industry, takes place every other year, alternating with SPCI, the Swedish trade show for the…
“Falls can now be added to the growing list of poor health outcomes associated with non-adherence to medication,” said lead author Sarah D. Berry, MD, MPH, a…
The finding is reported in Nature Neuroscience, online May 16, and highlighted in the magazine's “news and views” section.Simon Alford, University of Illinois…
“Concentrations of atrazine commonly found in agricultural streams and rivers caused reduced reproduction and spawning, as well as tissue abnormalities in…
The regenerative ability of bones is limited. If they are too badly damaged, e.g. by a tumor or an accident, they have to be replaced by implants. At present…
An algorithm developed by Ki H. Chon, PhD, head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), in partnership with…
While ginger had been shown to exert anti-inflammatory effects in rodents, its effect on experimentally-induced human muscle pain was largely unexplored, said…
Livermore researcher Bruce Buchholz and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute are looking at victim’s teeth to determine how old they are at the time of…