For the first time researchers will measure the fertilisation compatibility between farmed and wild salmon, and therefore the risk of farmed genes entering…
Dr Glenn Burley has been awarded one of only 8 coveted Advanced Research Fellowships in Chemistry worth £922,000, given annually by the Engineering and…
Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space are revealed today in the New Journal of Physics. The findings…
A new study shows that minorities are making equal or even better economic gains than whites when moving to new neighborhoods, but adds that white children…
The research, published today in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, sheds new light on the pathology of three related but non-curable cancer-predisposed…
Like a quilt that loses heat between squares, the earth’s system of tectonic plates lets warmth out at every stitch.But a new study in PNAS Early Edition finds…
In a study published today (Aug. 14) in the online, open-access journal Public Library of Science Biology, a team of researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical…
Biologists at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have found that a simple interaction between just two genes determines the…
“We have found that cocaine’s effects on the cardiovascular system can be reversed by the use of a drug called dexmedetomidine, which is currently approved by…
“Our study shows that people who develop fat around the middle have more atherosclerotic plaque than those who have smaller waist-to-hip ratios,” said Dr….
Not all patients with sepsis mount the same immune response, even when they look the same clinically, according to findings from the first large-scale natural…
Visible only under a very high-resolution light microscope, the dynamic waves are made of a signaling protein that directs cell movement. This protein and a…
The drug, oral EN101antisense, inhibits the production of acetylcholine esterase, which is an important enzyme in the function of the neuromuscular junction,…
Those taking the drug verapamil for cluster headaches should be closely monitored with frequent electrocardiograms (EKGs) for potential development of…
In some ways, certain tumors resemble bee colonies, says pathologist Tan Ince. Each cancer cell in the tumor plays a specific role, and just a fraction of the…
That’s the method outlined in a paper published online August 12 by Nature Medicine. Scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center show how the…