Huntington's disease is caused by a mutation of a gene that the produces the Huntington protein. This protein influences a number of processes in the cells of…
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) can cause pain on walking and ischaemia resulting in pain when resting, ulceration and gangrene.One in five people over the…
Now, computer scientist Jörgen Skågeby of Linköping University in Sweden writing in the International Journal of Web Based Communities, explains how there are…
The problem is largely exasperated by intense agriculture and irrigation. Salinity drives the plant into water deficit and is accompanied by toxicity of sodium…
Arterial hypertension is a causal and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular and renal diseases and an important and frequently encountered condition in…
The lead report from the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Consortium, published in Nature, together with 28 companion papers published in Genome Research,…
Professor Fitzhugh Mullan and Dr Seble Frehywot, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC, USA, and colleagues…
Mark S. Roberts and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh used data from a large, multi-centre study to develop their dynamic microsimulation model….
In 2004 Koichi Itagaki discovered an exploding star in the galaxy UGC4904 (78 million light years away in the Lynx constellation), which rapidly faded from…
Researchers ran a series of experiments to examine the approach that people took when faced with a sequence of choices.They find that, contrary to economic…
Bjarke Christensen and Tine Licht together with colleagues from Denmark’s National Food Institute set out to investigate whether the growth conditions of…
A team of 12 researchers from University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland and the Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK set out to uncover what S. aureus…
Metals, plastics and wood – many materials today are powder-coated. Paints and lacquers are applied as powders, melted by the introduction of heat and finally…
The link between calorie restriction and a longer, healthier life may lie in the head, not in the gut, MIT biologists report.Dietary restriction extends…
The bowhead whale, devastated in the 19th and early 20th centuries by commercial whaling fleets, has been a food staple for Eskimos and other indigenous arctic…
Rove beetles can be used as indicators of clear-cut harvesting and regeneration practices and can be used as an example as to how species react to harvesting….
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