The launch of IPY on March 1 2007 will mark the onset of an internationally coordinated research campaign in both polar regions involving hundreds of projects…
The knowledge on the molecular bases of cancer generated during the last decades has been successfully translated into small but significant gains in overall…
The study appears December 20 in the inaugural issue of PLoS ONE.Utilizing stem cells harvested from the extracted wisdom teeth of 18- to 20-year olds, Shi and…
The results show that it is the most genetically variable wolf individuals that are recruited into the breeding population. An important consequence of this…
The study, published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE, was carried out by a team of researchers led by Devon D. Brewer, director of the research firm…
Yuan-Ping Pang, Ph.D., a chemist and expert in computer-aided molecular design at Mayo Clinic, identified two unique amino acid residues called cysteine (286)…
A study published in PLoS ONE today addresses the impact of neuroprotection on Alzheimer's disease. Remarkably, the study shows that even very modest…
A team from the Institut Pasteur has recently shown that the tuberculosis bacillus hides from the immune system in its host's fat cells. This formidable…
According to biologist Arnold van Vliet of Wageningen University, this unseasonable flowering is being caused by extremely high autumn temperatures. The mean…
The GSF experts have now elucidated the exact mechanism of an anti-inflammatory effect. This is an important contribution by the GSF to the transfer of…
What you do is sometimes determined by what your neighbours do. Scientists believe that this extends to stomatal behaviour. Stomata are pores placed at the…
Patients with advanced cancer that has spread to many different sites often do not have many treatment options, since they would be unable to tolerate the…
Approximately 8 of 10 people experiencing a major depressive episode will have one or more further episodes during their lifetime, a recurrent major depressive…
Astronomers at ESO's frontline Paranal Observatory got a surprise on the morning of 18 December when looking at the observatory's all-sky camera, MASCOT. For…
The academics, in collaboration with colleagues at The University of Birmingham, have been awarded almost £6 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences…
And now, while studying the mechanism behind RNAi researchers at Oxford and Helsinki University have discovered that the functional core of a key enzyme…
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