The french-german institution for security and defence (ISL) and Saarland University joined their efforts and developed a method to strengthen the structur of…
Over the last years, there was a tremendous increase in the clinical use of allogenic cord blood (CB) for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Amongst…
The white blood cells are called regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, and their best known function is to keep the body's immune system from attacking its…
The study by Kang Zhang, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine and professor of ophthalmology and human genetics at the Shiley Eye Center at…
A patient with DVT is typically treated with anticoagulants (blood thinners) however researchers have found that image-guided interventional radiology…
Genes previously known to be essential to the coordinated, rhythmic electrical activity of cardiac muscle — a healthy heartbeat — have now also been found to…
Nanoscopic tubes made of a lattice of carbon just a single atom deep hold promise for delivering medicines directly to a tumor, sensors so keen they detect the…
Charts or online calculators are then used to show a “healthy weight range” given an individual's height that corresponds to the “healthy range BMI.” For…
A team of researchers, led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, studied 6,257 adult twins from Australia. They wanted to…
A combination of small satellites can, with innovative methods, use the signals of the navigation satellite systems GPS and Galileo to significantly improve…
Nitric oxide, a gas well known to scientists for its myriad functions, has proven challenging to measure accurately outside the laboratory. A team of Princeton…
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered how one antioxidant protein controls the activity of another protein, critical for the…
The flashes, known as gamma ray bursts, are beams of high energy radiation – similar to the radiation emitted by explosions of nuclear weapons – produced by…
While investigating ways of cleaning up groundwater contamination, scientists examined how microbes break down contaminants under the soil’s surface and found…
The research demonstrates that the federal government provided substantially larger subsidies to fossil fuels than to renewables. Fossil fuels benefited from…
Published August 26, the paper highlights how daily commuting patterns in mega-cities may be a critically overlooked factor in understanding the resurgence of…