Athletes know that damage to a tendon can signal an end to their professional careers. But a consortium of scientists, led in part by University of Southern…
Writing in the current issue (Sept. 9, 2007) of the journal Nature Chemical Biology, a team of researchers from the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy describes a…
The probe's main ingredient is a molecule that labels active proteases – protein-destroying enzymes – that run amok in cancerous cells. The molecule is…
Humans have many more copies of this gene than any of their ape relatives, the study found, and they use the copies to flood their mouths with amylase, an…
Did the great flood of Noah’s generation really occur thousands of years ago” Was the Roman city of Caesarea destroyed by an ancient tsunami” Will pollution…
“A V/Q scan can be the first choice—but the CT angiogram is the classic choice—for diagnosing a pulmonary embolism,” noted H. Dirk Sostman, a professor of…
A serious complication of pregnancy marked by soaring blood pressure and swelling of the hands and feet, preeclampsia is the leading cause of premature…
Management Insights, a regular feature of the journal, is a digest of important research in business, management, operations research, and management science….
Nokia and VTT have developed a system dynamic model asset to solve complex process challenges. The model asset is utilized in improving product process…
In the field of nutrition, miracles do not exist: in the same way we gain weight as years pass by, weight loss should be equally progressive, states Professor…
The researchers of the IRIBHM have prooved, by the use of these genetically-modified mice, that those abnormalities of B lymphocytes development and function…
Scientists using agents programmed with simple instructions to work out why some primate groups are ‘despotic’ whilst others are ‘egalitarian’ – overturning…
Dr Sue Page of the Department of Geography met with 200 scientists, politicians, legislators, land managers, representatives of national and local governments,…
While unemployment is viewed as a bad signal by prospective employers, economists have speculated that being in a low-quality job may well be an equally bad…
The new agents are based on special polymers, which strongly inhibit fungal growth, but can not be taken up by humans. Additional wood-improving…
Ocean “acidification” occurs when chemical compounds such as carbon dioxide, sulfur, or nitrogen mix with seawater, a process which lowers the pH and reduces…
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