The discovery, by scientists in the institute's Stem Cells and Cancer and Bioinformatics divisions, also explains decades of evidence linking breast cancer…
Scientists have shown in multiple contexts that DNA damage over our lifetimes is a key mechanism behind the development of cancer and other age-related…
A new study led by the scientific director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research has uncovered for the first time how bacteria…
A team of MIT researchers has found a novel way to mimic the process by which plants use the power of sunlight to split water and make chemical fuel to power…
Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that differences in areas' capacity for providing…
Palliative radiotherapy for end-stage cancer patients is intended to control cancer-related pain and other symptoms and to help patients maintain a good…
Poverty influences a child's well-being through multiple environmental stressors, the report says, but research and interventions often fail to take into…
That event is very important because the maternal thyroid hormones appear to play a key role in the development of the nervous system and other organs of the…
What do obesity trends in China, barriers to export markets facing small farmers in Kenya, or alternative soil conservation strategies in Peru have in common?…
During neural development, immature nerve cells extend axons and dendrites toward their targets then form connections with other cells. At the tip of these…
As well as being expressed in the kidney, AE1 is the most abundant protein in the membrane of red blood cells, or erythrocytes, and helps prevent tissue damage…
Just one “pulse” of artificial light at night disrupts circadian cell division, reveals a new study carried out by Dr. Rachel Ben-Shlomo of the University of…
Nanoparticles are already widely used in everyday products such as cosmetics, textiles, dyes, and paints. It is quite possible that these minute fragments of…
ASM (Acibenzolar-S-Methyl) improves the resistance of plants against abiotic stresses. ASM has been tested successfully and protects crops and model plants…
A process has been developed at the Technical University of Dortmund that for the first time enables biocatalytic
reaction mixtures composed by two-phase…
The French Pavilion (Stand D125 in Hall 5) at the NEC (in Birmingham) will offer a unique environment in which security specialists, manufacturers,…