The “evil” cells are clones that have a pre-existing, rather than acquired, resistance to drugs used for treating ALL, and their presence in a patient means…
Researchers investigating ways of prompting the immune system to recognise and kill tumour cells have found that a drug containing parts of the diptheria toxin…
Scientists have long known that humans and sea urchins are closely related. In fact, these animals are the only invertebrates on the human branch of the…
Now in its fifth year, the competition offers students the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime trip to ESO's flagship observatory in Chile, as well as many…
45 participants from 15 countries attended the first joint COST – NATO strategic expert meeting that was held on 6 and 7 November 2006. The NATO Science for…
The prize is to be bestowed at the Karolinska Stroke Update congress in Stockholm, Sweden, on 12-14 November 2006. A new study on thrombolysis treatment that…
The “eco-innovation” is one of the pillars of the environment policy recently adopted by the EU, emphasizing that a “green” product is not enough, but that the…
A team of experts from across the Netherlands studied the medical profiles of 4,245 adults who had received kidney transplants, using data from the Netherlands…
H. pylori is a Gram-negative, spiral bacterium that colonizes the gastric mucosa of at least 50% of the world's population and plays a causative role in the…
Eclipse is an open development platform and application framework for building software. VTT's first contribution to the Eclipse community is a tool designed…
The scientists expressed their concern about the continuing adverse affects of human activities on the global environment and the resulting serious threats to…
The project, co-sponsored by the World Health Organisation, aims to create an international network of researchers who can identify and quantify health risks…
“We can see that personality has a certain influence, but that it is far from being decisive in determining whether young people are willing to expose…
Despite efforts to reduce carbon emissions, the global growth rate in CO2 was 3.2% in the five years to 2005 compared to 0.8% in the period 1990 to 1999,…
Neuroblastoma is unique in the sense that at least ten percent of tumors regress spontaneously without treatment, even if they have already started to…
VTT has in collaboration with institutes from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Germany developed a Travel Planner, which helps to plan combined passenger ship and…
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