Professor Jie Tong, an aerospace mechanics expert from the University’s Department of Mechanical and Design Engineering, is leading the international team of…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and the California…
Tests on volunteers showed that black tea significantly improves the ability of the arteries to relax and expand, but adding milk completely blunts the effect….
The review also looks forward to the arrival of newly designed molecules that mimic the action of insulin while avoiding triggering an allergic response. In…
“This is the best documented record we have of what happens to the climate system during long-term global warming following an ice age,” said Isabel Montanez,…
A report on the renegade ribonucleic acid, and the code that directs its movement, will be published Jan. 5 in Science.MicroRNAs, already implicated in cancer…
The study will be published MOnday January 14 in the prestigious medical journal Developmental Cell. This molecule is part of a complex signalling system known…
“We found that estrogen suppresses appetite using the same pathways in the brain as the adipose hormone leptin,” said lead author Tamas L. Horvath, chair and…
The summer of 2006 was the second warmest in the continental United States since records began in 1895, according to the National Climatic Data Center….
By joining a sugar to a short-chain fatty acid compound, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a two-pronged molecular weapon that kills cancer cells in lab…
John Drake, assistant professor in the UGA Institute of Ecology, has created a mathematical model that takes into account how factors such as the speed at…
Statistics show that gains in survival rates for teenagers and young adults (age 15 – 29) with cancer are dismal when compared to those for youngsters and…
Cornell researchers studied the related virus, called H5N2, to see whether a hypothetical mutated form of H5N1 could infect people through drinking and…
Porous nano-objects with defined sizes and structures are particularly interesting, for example, as capsules for enzymes, a means of transport for…
The movement and growth of cells are critical for normal physiological processes, and–when perturbed–can result in negative outcomes such as tumor formation….
In a new and unique study to determine if genes on the Y chromosome are involved in prostate cancer, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of…
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