One of the projects funded in this context is the network project “ePerformance”, which was initiated by Audi and will be funded by the government with a total…
A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-based research team has identified how a chromosomal abnormality known to be associated with acute lymphoblastic…
The team used numerical simulations to show that some comet-like objects residing in a disk outside the original orbit of the planets were scattered across the…
The researchers, including a team from the University of Granada (UGR), used biochemical and molecular techniques for a decade to detail the taxonomical and…
J. A. Tossell notes in the new study that another scientist discovered the molecule while doing research unrelated to global climate change. Carbon dioxide was…
Amid reports that swine flu viruses are developing the ability to shrug off existing antiviral drugs, scientists in Japan are reporting a first-of-its kind…
With this method the researchers were able to prove for the first time that not only cell-intrinsic mechanisms, but also external environmental factors such as…
Dr Dave Stegman, a Centenary Research Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, led the study and says that part of the intrigue…
The dung-beetle has fallen on hard times. Once worshipped by the Ancient Egyptians its status has now slipped to that of unsung and forgotten hero, the butt of…
The research was led by Dr Bhismadev Chakrabarti and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen from the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge. 68 genes were chosen either…
These findings help address a longstanding debate about whether learning such information might cause lasting psychological harm, at least among those with a…
The “sloppier copier” discovered by USC biologists is also the best sixth man in the DNA repair game, an article in the journal Nature shows.The enzyme known…
DACH1, a cell fate determination factor protein, prevents cancer cell proliferation by repressing the function of estrogen receptorsƒnin breast cancer, the…
Two international research teams have determined the complete genetic sequences of two species of parasitic flatworms that cause schistosomiasis, a…
Researchers also found that patients who had higher levels of a common liver enzyme upon beginning treatment for HIV-HBV co-infection were at an increased risk…
Significant sea ice formation occurred in the Arctic earlier than previously thought is the conclusion of a study published this week in Nature.”The results…