Cigarette smoking induced COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a disease that results in severe breathing difficulty. According to World Health…
MPQ scientists get close to the quantum limit of the eigenmodes of mesoscopic mechanical oscillators.The observation of quantum phenomena in macroscopic…
The protein, called Hu antigen R (HuR), is a stress response protein found in the cytoplasm of pancreatic tumor cells. In certain experimental settings,…
One of the invasive mosquitoes, the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), can carry dengue fever, a viral disease that sickens 50 to 100 million people a…
Despite the extreme conditions astronomers were surprised to find the same proportions of low- and high-mass young stars in the cluster as are found in more…
Now, in a study appearing online in JBC, researchers have created a line of such reprogrammed stem cells from adult pigs. As pigs are large animals with a…
The wide-ranging list of endangered and threatened species includes such well known wildlife as snow leopards, wolves, and brown bears, but also lesser-known…
Forensic specialists from the University of Indianapolis are lending their expertise to an international effort to study and preserve Africa’s endangered…
Researchers have now experimentally demonstrated the potential for another graphene application: replacing copper for interconnects in future generations of…
Those are some of the sounds that have been missing from computer graphic simulations of water and other fluids, according to researchers in Cornell’s…
Reed warblers live with the threat that a cuckoo bird will infiltrate their nest, remove one of their eggs, and replace it with the cuckoo's own. This…
The research, to be published in the June 5 issue of Cell Stem Cell, shows for the first time that a protein called Wnt7a increases the number of stem cells in…
Writing in the current issue of the journal, Microbiology, Professor Gejiao Wang and his colleagues from Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, PR China…
The group’s groundbreaking discovery that a plant hormone called auxin is responsible for egg production has several major implications.First, this is the…
Between 1993 and 2003 the number of journeys by commercial vehicles within the Swiss conurbations rose by half. The volume of freight, however, has not risen….
The answer, reported this week in Science, lies in one tiny protein called “Rhes” that's found only in the part of the brain that controls movement. The…
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