Some drugs, like over-the-counter aspirin, lend themselves to this mode of delivery and are trivial to take. They can be pressed into a pill and swallowed….
Through the years, numerous ways of sterilization techniques have been developed, but the old mainstay remains a 130-year-old device called an autoclave, which…
“Postmenopausal hormone treatment is associated with increased rates of benign breast biopsies, and early and late stages of cancer. Atypical ductal…
“Those minor to moderate events along the San Jacinto fault relieve some of the stress built by the constantly moving tectonic plates,” said Shimon Wdowinski,…
Two independent teams have, for the first time, created Bose-Einstein condensates of strontium atoms. The ability to cool strontium to very low temperatures…
The research, published in the November issue of the American Naturalist, is the first to document that ants bore into live trees, and it reopens a…
A small group of patients with severe Graves' eye disease experienced rapid improvement of their symptoms — and improved vision — following treatment with the…
“This is a way that nitrogen is lost from an ecosystem that people have never accounted for before,” said Jed Sparks, associate professor of ecology and…
In the first days of their lives, French infants already cry in a different way to German babies. This was the result of a study by researchers from the Max…
Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden have now demonstrated that plasmid-based methods, which had been limited to single-cell organisms such as…
An international team of researchers, headed by Leiden theoretical chemist Geert-Jan Kroes, published on this subject this week in the journal Science. Hydrogen on copper…
This work, developed at the department of Computer Architecture and Technology of the UGR, has designed several algorithms that permit to look for the best…
The work is time-consuming and monotonous but requires highest levels of concentration, because any blemish in the mold can render it useless. A skilled worker…
The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula…
The future for mNPs however appears even brighter. With the design of 'theranostic' molecules, mNPs could play a crucial role in developing one-stop tools to…
The research involved 238,371 women from the Nurses’ Health Study and Nurses’ Health Study II who were 25 to 55 years old. The women answered a questionnaire…