The main risk factors for type 2 diabetes are obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. The biomedical community has known for many years that substances produced by…
What are the bare essentials of life, the indispensable ingredients required to produce a cell that can survive on its own? Can we describe the molecular…
One obstacle standing in their way is the lack of access to the Internet and regional communication infrastructure. In order to connect these regions to the…
Still, bacteria and another class of microorganisms called archaea (first discovered in extreme environments such as deep-sea volcanic vents) manage just fine,…
Two signaling pathways essential to normal human development – the Wnt/Wingless (Wnt) and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathways – interact in ways…
The research was carried out jointly by the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Nutrition, based at the University of Warwick and University…
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a set of molecular brakes that stabilize the developing brain's circuitry. Moreover,…
The research, federally funded by the National Science Foundation, appears in the Nov. 20 edition of the journal Science.”We're learning the rules about how…
The study, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, was conducted by a scientific team from The Hershey Company, Brunswick Laboratories,…
At the heart of the concept are tiny towers, made from semiconducting material, at the University of Würzburg's Department of Applied Physics. They are around…
The purpose of this study published in the December 2009 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine was to identify chromosomal regions containing genes that…
These CO2 emissions increased at a rate of 3.4% per year from 2000 to 2008, in contrast to 1% each year in the previous decade, scientists from the Global…
“Probiotics need to interact with cells lining the gut to have a beneficial effect, and if they attach to surfaces in the gut they are more likely to stick…
The same type of large industrial sized X-ray scanners that NASA uses to detect flaws in the space shuttle’s behemoth solid fuel rockets is now allowing…
In addition, the BU researchers have developed a new computational strategy to analyze this data and specifically identify key biological pathways (molecular…
The Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Super Typhoon Nida on November…
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