“Over the past few years, the utilization of contrast-enhanced MRI has markedly increased; it’s increased by 65% at our institution over the previous five…
While the overall rate of airline mishaps remained stable during that time, the proportion of mishaps involving pilot error decreased 40 percent. The rate of…
Over the course of the 20th Century, doctors waged war against infectious bacterial illness with the best new weapon they had: antibiotics.But the emergence of…
During the 2000 presidential election in Palm Beach County, Florida, voting machines and ballot formats came under national scrutiny after it was found that…
The team analyzed the somite segmentation process that results in the formation of the vertebral column. This process is thought to be controlled by two…
Chromosomes shorten with every cell division. In stem cells and in cancer cells, this shortening is compensated by telomerase, an enzyme that adds short repeat…
The new mechanism is called replication “Fork Stalling and Template Switching,” said Dr. James R. Lupski, Cullen professor of molecular and human genetics and…
Bench to Bedside “Cardiac stem cell therapy involves delivering a variety of cells into hearts following myocardial infarction or chronic cardiomyopathy,” says…
Converting the “genetic blueprint” into molecular building blocks requires two basic processes: transcription, which copies the information from DNA into RNA…
This study marks the first time researchers have accurately predicted a cell’s dynamics at the genome scale (for most of the thousands of components in the…
The researchers found that adult male chimps out on their own tend to follow in their mother’s footsteps, spending their days in the same familiar haunts where…
In a global-scale study, the researchers found some of the first evidence that the health of the deep sea, as measured by the rate of critical ecosystem…
It is Monday morning in the not-too-distant future and two neighbours, Bob the builder and Bob the businessman, are getting ready for work. The builder has to…
Modern society is fast-paced and mobile. For ICT to really keep up with dynamic lifestyles, it has to be just as mobile. This is where the EU-funded MobiLife…
Scientists at the University of Leeds have identified a previously unknown natural mechanism that opens ion channels – proteins at the cell surface that act as…
An international study investigating the carbon sink capacity of northern terrestrial ecosystems discovered that the duration of the net carbon uptake period…
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