The study involved 254 people with brain tumors and 238 people with no cancers. All those with tumors had glioblastoma multiforme, the most common type of…
Massagué’s research has elucidated fundamental processes that control cell division and identified genes playing a key role in tumor generation and metastasis….
This phenomenon – termed ‘beat induction’ – is likely to have contributed to music’s origin. It enables such actions as clapping, making music together and…
The ten-year grant has been awarded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to the University’s Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology…
This theory suggests that in its early history the Earth suffered glaciations so major that it froze over completely. It remains controversial, but has proved…
Sotiris Kotsiantis of the Educational Software Development Laboratory at the University of Patras, Greece, explains how student dropout rates are much higher…
Present at the opening ceremony were the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s Vice Rector of Research, Gonzalo León, the Dean of the School of Computing, Javier…
The symposium highlighted various aspects such as problems and challenges related to agriculture, apart from the effort to produce entrepreneurs in agriculture.
Its ISO 15693 functionality makes the RF300 system also suitable for use in applications which only need simple types of transponders with little memory, such…
Held March 25-26 at the Doubletree Hotel in Anaheim, Calif., the “Heat Treating of Light Alloys” program will cover new techniques in processing,…
The search for weight loss therapies is as old as medicine itself. Small molecule treatments are marginally effective or cause undesirable side effects, some…
These new tools are photoactivatable fluorescent proteins (PAFPs) and other advanced fluorescent proteins (FPs), several of which have been developed by…
The study, available online and appearing in the February issue of Nature Neuroscience, is the first to identify the specific signal that establishes…
Using laser welding for joining thermoplastics is an industrially established process. The advantages of this process are, among other things, high automation…
Independent scientific and legal reviews sought by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature…
The European Grid Initiative (EGI) aims at establishing a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe, and at moving from a structure based upon short-term…