The study indicates that more and more Europeans are likely to suffer from ragweed allergy or already have an allergy to ragweed. Ragweed is the main cause of…
Aquamarine Power Limited, a marine energy company, and Queen’s University Belfast have agreed a new five year research partnership which will develop the next…
This research, coordinated by the doctors Jesús Prieto, Esther Larrea, Pablo Sarobe, Iranzu González and Rafael Aldabe, has been published in the Journal of…
In concrete, the work confirmed that the inactivation of 13 microRNAs (a type of gene) by an epigenetic mechanism (capable of modulating the functions of the…
Dr Fanning received the AACR-AstraZeneca research award at a recent AACR special conference focused on prostate cancer in San Diego, California. Prostate…
New European guidelines issued in November 2008 emphasised speed of action and the importance of reperfusion therapy to restore blood flow to the heart and…
Cooperation, despite being now considered the third force of evolution, just behind mutation and natural selection, is difficult to explain in the context of…
T cells are central to an organism’s defense against invading pathogens. But scientists have long puzzled over how they are activated and regulated after…
However, sustaining spin currents has proven difficult. Now researchers from the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako with scientists from Keio University,…
A RIKEN-led team of molecular biologists has determined the specific bonding leading to the formation of a protein complex involved in distributing pigment…
The finding is significant because such population structure can bias genome-wide association studies (GWASs) aimed at determining genetic links to disease,…
Researchers: Assoc Prof Dr Ir Andrew Ragai Henry Rigit, Ervina Junaidi, Dr Rubiyah Baini, Almon Chai Wei-YenThis research project is on the design and…
On February 8th, 2009, the online is-sue of the renowned scientific magazine Nature Genetics publishes three large-scale studies in parallel on these findings….
The bacterium Escherichia coli, one of the best-studied single-celled organisms around, is a master of industrial efficiency. This bacterium can be thought of…
Programs for adolescents need to be engaging, but situations that ask young people to make sacrifices and do difficult things for the good of the group are…
Already considered among the world’s top oceans research institutions, Dalhousie University is celebrating the recent launch of the NSERC Canadian Healthy…
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