Fully 60% of the patients agreed to the testing, a high percentage that may have been influenced by an ongoing district-wide campaign encouraging HIV…
Those patients whose tumors had normal p53 displayed only a 30 percent survival rate. The findings raise the possibility of a new strategy for fighting cancer…
Free will and true spontaneity exist … in fruit flies. This is what scientists report in a groundbreaking study in the May 16, 2007 issue of the open-access…
With this system, a new cost-efficient performance class is realized. A balanced combination of the hardware and software components optimizes the…
A contingent of researchers from around the world, including Germany, Panama, USA and Canada, have uncovered that tropical plant species distribution patterns…
Or, in a third scenario, they can sprout lymphatic vessels that facilitate their dissemination when they perceive the presence of two molecules called VEGF-C…
On 24 January 2001, Cluster’s spacecraft observed shock reformation in the Earth’s magnetosphere, predicted only in theory, over 20 years ago. Cluster provided…
Every year, we “invent” more than 2,000 new substances, most of them contaminants, which are emitted into the environment and which are consequently present in…
Environmental pollution is an important cause of stress in natural populations. This not only has consequences for the size, dynamics and structure of the…
Earlier research had shown that since the introduction of the effective HAART therapy, in 1996, homosexual men have more unsafe sex. Smit established that drug…
The severity of the kidney disease lupus nephritis varies and the side effects of the treatments differ as well. Therefore Grootscholten advises doctors to…
This impact has greatly contributed to the decline of fish migratory species, such the European eel or the Atlantic salmon, being both important in fisheries…
They studied similar production chains in various tropical areas and recorded their findings in a book: ´Tropical food chains, Governance regimes for quality…
The plant hormone jasmonic acid plays a major role during the immune response against insects and pathogens. Dutch researcher Vivian van Oosten has…
De Boer carried out his doctoral research at RIKILT – Institute of Food Safety in Wageningen. Much research into the health effects of polyphenols is carried…
Published today in PLoS Medicine, the study compares reproductive hormone levels of groups of Bangladeshi women who migrated at different periods of their…