Currently, there are approximately 25 million people around the world (10 million in the USA) living with cancer, and over 60% of adults newly diagnosed with…
Amyloid deposits in tissues and organs are linked to a number of diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, type II diabetes, and prion diseases such as…
Potential applications include safety gear for U.S. soldiers and filtration systems for buildings and vehicles.Hinestroza, assistant professor of fiber science…
“This is a marvelous gift,” said Robert Zimmer, President of the University. “A generous family has stepped forward and is making an investment in high-energy…
As part of a new national research program called the Asphalt Research Consortium (ARC), Bahia is now using $5 million in funding to study ways of making…
Scientists are diligently working to understand how and why the world’s ice shelves are melting. While most of the data they need (temperatures, wind speed,…
The answer is not necessarily “both.” According to a study published online this week in PNAS Early Edition, the explosion of species at the tropics has much…
“The process could change ethanol production in dry-grind plants so much that energy costs can be reduced by as much as one-third,” said Hans van Leeuwen, an…
But new research led by a biologist at the University of Washington, Bothell, shows that some of the most popular current biofuel stocks might have exactly the…
Physicists in recent years have been pursuing a variety of routes to tap electron spins for their potential use in quantum computers that can perform millions…
The energy of ions impacting surfaces during plasma processing is crucial in determining both
the properties of materials being deposited by plasmas and for…
Scientists at the Georg-August-University generated monoclonal antibodies which specifically react with beta2-adrenergic receptor (b2AR) on human leukocytes…
Scientists at the University of Göttingen generated polyklonal and monoclonal antibodies against the new diagnostic tumor marker PIWIL2. The tumor marker…
Led by ecology lecturer Dr Markus Eichhorn, the team will spend 10 weeks camping in the wilderness of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Far East Russia, an area of…
What’s going on in the earth’s core, why are there magnetic anomalies in rocks, how is water incorporated in minerals, and how do pearls grow? These and many…
The consortium ultimately aims to establish a sustainably funded infrastructure for biological information in Europe, to support innovation in life science…