Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Brian Druker, who led the five-year study, said the findings demonstrate Gleevec's effectiveness against the…
Striking new research from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) has revealed a potential new target that drug makers can use to attack…
“We have strong evidence that this is really a molecular change that is involved in long-term memory,” said Dr. Ronald Davis, professor of molecular and…
Currently used as a fuel additive to improve gasoline combustibility, ethanol is often touted as a potential solution to the growing oil-driven energy crisis….
Under the current law in England and Wales, rape can only be established if it can be demonstrated that sexual intercourse took place to which there was no…
The discovery, made in rodents, may lead to advances in understanding Alzheimer’s disease, autism and age-related memory loss, and could point to potential…
Until now, scientists believed that our relatively long lifespans controlled the expression of telomerase—an enzyme that can lengthen the lives of cells, but…
Biologists have discovered that the physical manifestation of DNA loops are a consequence of many biochemical processes in the cell, such as the regulation of…
Of the five senses, taste is one of the least understood, but now researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have come one step closer to…
In the latest issue of the journal Plant, Cell and Environment, Kurt Johnsen and fellow researchers at the FS Southern Research Station unit in Research…
Yanhong Zhang (UNESCO Institute for Statistics) analyzed fourteen school systems in Southern and Western Africa and found that almost 45 million students – or…
This holiday season, another woman who loves the rock band No Doubt will receive a plaid skirt that only the band's singer, Gwen Stefani, could pull off….
Ronald Thompson, ex-assistant hairdresser to John Frieda and Nicky Clarke, has invented an eco-friendly material from hair clippings that could eventually…
Now, however, the grounds for this have been seriously undermined by a new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Sweden. New measurement…
For some people, functional foods may play a role in managing their risk of chronic disease, such as the metabolic syndrome (see notes below). However, for the…
The remains of the apeman, dubbed Little Foot, were discovered in a cave complex at Sterkfontein by a local South African team in 1997. Its bones preserved in…
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