Obesity is a growing health problem in the industrialised
countries. Especially cardiovascular diseases and type II
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The invention consists in a method of inducing lipid oxidation or increasing insulin sensitivity through the administration of a ligand which binds to the IL-6…
The mechanism for this reversal is unknown, but UT Southwestern researchers and their colleagues in Indiana suspect that cancerous cells activate a defense…
The results were published today in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study involved 1.2 million Swedish men doing…
Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have successfully generated the first transgenic prairie voles, an important step…
Over the last few days, satellites have shown forecasters that Nida has zigzagged between 18 and 20 degrees North Latitude on its somewhat erratic northern…
In a method analogous to analyzing human fingerprints, scientists can make identifications by precisely comparing shark bites to the jaws and teeth of the…
The Basque technology centre has updated the traditional system for improving strains of the tuber by involving novel techniques that enable obtaining new…
Their research shows that viruses designed to kill cancer cells – oncolytic viruses – might be more effective against aggressive brain tumors if they also…
A South Tyrolean craftsman wearing ear protection carefully guides a tool arm over a master figure, producing forty or more mini-copies of the original at the…
According to a new study published in the December 2009 issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS), patients who undergo surgery more than three…
Herschel, the largest infrared telescope ever launched, is designed to study some of the coldest objects in space, located deep in a region of the…
The iPhone can be used for complete control of the laser system, independent of the location. The range of application extends from monitoring laser parameters…
Changes in the brain's white matter are common among the elderly and dementia patients, and often appear as blurred patches on CT and MRI images. “A likely…
On Earth, we tend to find dust nothing more than a nuisance that blankets our furniture and causes us to sneeze. Cosmic dust can also be a hindrance to…
Brown adipose tissue is different from white fat pads. It contains loads of mitochondria, miniature power stations which among other things can 'burn' fat. In…
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