In cosmetics, lipid vesicles, also known as liposomes, effectively transport ingredients through the skin. However, they are also used to encapsulate…
Ciliopathies are a newly emerging group of diseases caused by defects in the function or structure of cellular primary cilia, which are small, cellular…
University of Utah scientists developed a new kind of “molecular condom” to protect women from AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. Before sex, women…
And that factor is college major.Women are still segregated into college majors that will lead them to careers with less pay than men, said Donna…
Scientists at the University of Mainz have discovered a close correlation between over-indebtedness and obesity. According to the report published in the…
By Friday, Aug. 7 at 11 a.m. EDT (5 p.m. Hawaiian Time), Felicia had weakened from a Category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale to a Category two…
Previous studies on age-related cognitive decline have not adequately clarified the role demographics and socioeconomic status might play in the rate of…
Poor communication of the outcomes of medical tests whose results are pending at the time of a patient's hospital discharge is common and can lead to serious…
Among the areas of especially high Hepatitis C incidence is the Miyazaki prefecture of southern Japan, a trend that led Hiroaki Kataoka and colleagues at the…
Carbon nanoparticles are widely used in medicine, electronics, optics, materials science and architecture, but their health and environmental impact is not…
It is important for the people who operate facilities and machines to be able to answer this sort of question at any given time, because malfunctions and…
The same principle applies when cutting silicon blocks to make wafers for solar cells. You need a special slicing tool to produce paper-thin wafers from…
Researchers tested 679 people age 65 and older without dementia for mild cognitive impairment, the stage between normal aging and dementia. Participants…
Their discovery of the drug’s biological mechanism provides important new information about how to combat parasitic roundworms, which infect more than a…
Researchers at Heriot-Watt University and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) in collaboration with Edinburgh based company Ingenza Ltd are searching for new…
The program, which is called Scaffold Hunter, acts as a tool for navigating chemical space. It generates maps of chemically-related structures and links them…
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