In a continuing effort to improve the clinical management of community-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureas (CA-MRSA), Loren Miller, M.D.,…
When cells go about the business of dividing, they can get sidelined. Maybe there aren’t enough nutrients. Maybe there aren’t the right signals to resume…
Working in the remote forests of Cambodia, conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have just discovered Southeast Asia's only known…
Writing in the January issue of Geophysical Research Letters, MBARI geologists Charlie Paull and William Ussler and their coauthors described the results of…
The findings suggest that the growing number of Hispanic and Asian immigrants to the United States led to more marriages within these groups, and fewer…
“If further experiments are successful, the scaffold could be used in clinical trials within three or four years,” said Franklin Moutos, a graduate student in…
The research team surgically removed the vagus nerve in mice and found the procedure prevented or reversed the development of insulin resistance and high blood…
The work was conducted by a core team of cancer prevention specialists at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and…
Drugs that block some activities of the enzyme, known as xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR), might therefore offer a novel antiobesity therapy designed to fight fat…
In the Feb. 7 Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and colleagues describe how isoflurane may set off a process in…
An international multi-centre research effort has identified a new genetic defect as a potential heritable breast cancer susceptibility candidate. The same…
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common form of heart disease in Europe and the US. It is caused by a narrowing of the arteries due to deposits of fat…
The patient gown combines a new and innovative design with an anti-microbial finish that controls the growth of bacteria. The gown’s unique design aims to…
Cyber crime is a fast growing industry, with 'phishing' emails alone rising 8000 times between 2005 and 2006.** In 2004 it cost European business £14.7 billion…
LBIC currently provides 21st century laboratory and office facilities for more than 23 biotechnology and diagnostic companies, life science product and service…
Botanists at Edge Hill University, the UK’s newest University, have discovered a population Carex salina (Salt-marsh sedge), near Morvich on the west coast of…