The long molecules of DNA that carry our genetic information are wrapped up together with proteins into a dense complex called chromatin. The structure of…
New research from the University of Leeds has shown how eating more fibre – particularly cereal fibre – reduces the risk of developing breast cancer among…
Researchers from the UK and Netherlands studied 54 men with premature ejaculation, randomly assigning them to a treatment and control group. Both groups…
Tekes’ funding contributes to the growth of Finland’s economy and competitiveness. Almost 2,000 R&D projects funded by Tekes were completed in 2006. They…
Ubicom develops and pilots technology solutions for selected applications. The programe lasts for seven years with a budget of approximately EUR 294 million,…
In a study published online this week in Oncogene, the researchers report that estrogen induces the expression of an inhibitor that blocks immune cells’…
Part of that photograph shows the central uplift structure in the crater. Rocks that form this peak were several kilometers beneath the surface until an impact…
Drumlins are well known features of landscape scoured by past ice sheets and can be seen in Scotland and Northern England where they were formed during the…
UF paleontologist Bruce MacFadden said his team used an established geochemical technique that analyzes rare earth elements in a new application to revise the…
Dartmouth researchers have learned that the prevailing winds in the mid latitudes of North America, which now blow from the west, once blew from the east. They…
A team of Canadian researchers, lead by Dr. Susan George and Dr. Brian O'Dowd at the Centre for Addiction and Mental health (CAMH), discovered a distinct…
“Anyone, a man or a woman, over 50 years of age, with a fracture of any kind resulting from minimal injury, such as a slip on the pavement, needs to be…
Women who took diuretics — commonly known as “water pills” — during pregnancy were not any less likely to develop preeclampsia, to deliver prematurely or to…
The related report by Lázaro et al, “Hepatitis C virus replication in transfected and serum-infected cultured human fetal hepatocytes,” appears in the February…
A decade ago, Shuhai Xiao, associate professor of geosciences at Virginia Tech, and his colleagues discovered thousands of 600-million-year-old embryo…
Wishful thinking? Not if two studies being conducted at the University at Buffalo's School of Dental Medicine show positive results.In one study, funded by a…
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