The Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, which was founded to develop new, cost-effective TB vaccines for use in the developing world, has licensed a discovery…
Researchers, led by Dr Kristine Lain at the University of Kentucky, USA, compared 30 pregnant women, who developed GDM later in pregnancy, with 29 pregnant…
Biological products, known as biopesticides, can play a significant role in a more sustainable food chain as chemical pesticides are withdrawn due to…
Doctoral research by Turi King has shown that men with the same British surname are highly likely to be genetically linked. The results of her research have…
Portuguese, Swiss and French researchers show, for the first time, that is possible to inhibit, in a living organism, the mutated copies of a gene without…
DVT can be fatal if the clot breaks free and travels to the lungs (pulmonary embolism). They can also cause severe leg swelling and ulcers – a condition known…
Eczema is an itchy skin condition that affects more than 1 in 20 people at some time in their lives and is especially common in children. Its cause is complex…
The cause of diseases such as BSE in cattle and Creutzfeld–Jakob disease in humans is a prion protein. This protein attaches to cell membranes by way of an…
But beyond general appearance, people living in different neighborhoods may be looking at distinct factors when making their overall evaluations. The study,…
“Sustainability and energy efficiency are two key challenges of our time, yet they also present rich opportunities,” said Rensselaer President Shirley Ann…
The “Lab-on-Bead” process will screen millions of chemicals simultaneously using tiny plastic beads so small that 1,000 of them would fit across a human hair….
“This encounter will potentially have far-reaching implications for understanding how the solar system was formed and how it evolved,” said professor Tamas…
Bioengineers and physicists at the University of California San Diego, in a paper published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
That is the conclusion of a new three-dimensional computer model of the cell sorting process produced by Shane Hutson, assistant professor of physics at…
At issue are grand unified theories that first appeared in the 1970s. They have suggested that, at short distances or high-energy scales, electromagnetic…
It is believed to be the first time that chemometric modeling of spectral data has been used to determine the time elapse after death of skeletal remains. In…
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