Studies show that each year, nearly 200,000 people in the U.S suffer a heart attack but may not realize it. These “silent” heart attacks aren't noted because…
The FANTOM, or Functional Annotation of the Mammalian cDNA, is a research consortium organized by RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) and made up of leading…
The Colorado River system supplies water to tens of millions of people and millions of acres of farmland, and has never experienced a delivery shortage.But if…
Overexpression of PEA-15, which binds and drags an oncoprotein out of the cell nucleus where it fuels cancer growth, steeply reduced breast cancer tumors in a…
Cancer that spreads to other organs finds a particularly inviting hideout in the brain, where these metastases are usually far harder to treat than they are in…
They found that high levels of a particular enzyme in the blood are an indicator that chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) – the most common form of adult…
The method opens the door for targeted design of antenna-based applications including highly sensitive biosensors and extremely fast photodetectors, which…
A collaboration between more than 70 researchers across the globe has uncovered nine new genes on the X chromosome that, when knocked-out, lead to learning…
Because food production is a major contributor to global warming, a lean population, such as that seen in Vietnam, will consume almost 20% less food and…
By sampling clouds — and making their own — researchers have shown for the first time a direct relation between lead in the sky and the formation of ice…
“A history of smoking has always been thought of as a predictor of lung cancer, but it is actually not very accurate,” said Jian-Min Yuan, Ph.D., M.D.,…
“We know that a pathway called SRC is involved in cell proliferation in certain types of cancers, including some ovarian cancers,” said Deanna Teoh, M.D., a…
Speaking on April 19 at the Experimental Biology 2009 meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Kristine Krajnak, a team leader in the Engineering and Control Technologies…
Researchers say their study, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), confirm the findings of other smaller…
Even if all three barriers are damaged, the nuclear fuel will not dissolve into the groundwater, according to a new doctoral dissertation from Chalmers…
Finally some promising news about pancreatic cancer, one of the most fatal cancers, due to the difficulties of early detection and the lack of effective…