UCLA researchers have uncovered a new way to scan brain tumors and predict which ones will be shrunk by the drug Avastin — before the patient ever starts…
Most agree that an asteroid collision 65 million years ago brought an end to the age of dinosaurs, but there is uncertainty about how many other extinctions…
Analyzed by themselves, the rings from a single tree or mollusk may sometimes reflect conditions that are either favorable or unfavorable for growth. When…
The new drug target, which is known as a protease dimer, could serve as a model for developing new therapeutics for diseases ranging from cancer to…
With a novel therapeutic delivery system, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has successfully targeted a…
The ocean's smallest swimming animals, such as jellyfish, can have a huge impact on large-scale ocean mixing, researchers have discovered.”The perspective we…
Several new lines of cowpeas with genes that are aphid-resistant and less susceptible to disease are currently being tested by researchers with Texas AgriLife…
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are small and very faint, containing few stars relative to their total mass. They appear to be made mostly of dark matter – a…
The number of large-diameter trees in the park declined 24 percent between the 1930s and 1990s. U.S. Geological Survey and University of Washington scientists…
This partnership with IMPAC will afford Siemens customers access to IMPAC’s latest innovative oncology information system (OIS) in addition to the radiation…
Scientists have for the past three decades tried to understand what makes proteins fold into functional units and why it happens, and several breakthroughs…
Chronic inflammatory lung diseases like chronic bronchitis and emphysema are a major global health problem, and the fourth leading cause of death and…
Nobody is entirely sure what the huntingtin protein does when it’s operating normally, but the effects of its malfunction are all too clear: increasingly…
Changes in the synaptic strength of neurons, effected by repeated neuronal activity, drive important behavioral processes such as learning and memory….
As a part of emergency government research aimed at addressing this need, RIKEN and University of Tokyo, are developing an H1N1 detection technique based on…
Kumano Basin off Kii Peninsula, approximately 58 km southeast of Japan— Despite harsh atmospheric and ocean conditions, and complex geological characteristics…
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