UK industry and academia has developed a unique partnership in designing and building compact and extremely cost effective satellites packed with innovative…
Current applicationsUp until late 2006, PDAs had been used on board the International Space Station (ISS) mainly as personal computing or entertainment…
During its long trek to final destination (comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko), Rosetta is planned to study two asteroids – 2867-Steins and 21-Lutetia, both lying…
The researchers summarized findings of their own investigations and extensive foreign experience, medical statistics and data of experiments carried out on…
At present, the virus is fought against by chemical agents. The drugs subscribed to the patients act predominantly on key HIV-1 enzymes – reverse…
Volcanic regions are connected with young mountain systems that are located at the periphery of Eurasian platform. The major part of these regions lies in the…
The electron source is based on an ultra-sharp metallic needle illuminated with short light pulses from a laser. “With these electron pulses, it is possible to…
The study compared the functionality of the HER2/neu receptor in the cancer cells of breast and ovarian cancer tissue. Supported by the Austrian Science Fund…
A Finnish-Japanese joint research project has produced first-rate results by discovering a phase transition in the structure of crystalline materials in…
According to Professor Nick Fyfe at Dundee University who led the project voluntary groups feel they are under considerable pressure because what is in the…
Steven Hagens, previously at the University of Vienna, told Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI, that certain bacteriophages, a type of virus that…
Real-time control of the function of single proteins by detecting and changing their shapes is the object of the new research project, called SPARTAN, which…
“We recommend avoiding the use of gadodiamide in patients with any degree of renal disease,” said Phillip H. Kuo, M.D., Ph.D., assistant clinical professor of…
In 2003 to 2005, market share of “Bt cotton” seeds rose from 12 percent to 62 percent in Warangal. Bt cotton is genetically modified to produce its own…
The slow rate of oxygen-reduction catalysis on the cathode – a fuel cell’s positively charged electrode – has been a primary factor hindering development of…
The discoveries reveal potential new targets for cancer drugs and could further research on stem-cell based therapies for degenerative diseases, said the…