Will these reforms raise administrative costs?The NHS in England is following the USA, Australia and many countries in Europe in introducing a system of paying…
Scientists understand little of what goes wrong in a psychotic person’s brain, but hope that brain imaging and systematic characterization of genetic activity…
Preclinical studies in mice by Ekatarina Dadachova and colleagues (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) published in the international open-access journal PLoS…
The ocean is full of life—large, small, and microscopic. Bacteriophage (phage) viruses are minute, self-replicating bundles that alter microorganisms’ genetic…
A protein with the ironic name “Srcasm” can counteract the effects of tumor-promoting molecules in skin cells, according to new research by investigators at…
According to a team of researchers from the United States and the Netherlands, led by a physicist from the University of Pennsylvania, DNA is much more…
With the help of some high tech equipment, well-defined mouse models and lots of analytical know how, physiologists are beginning to hone in on the secret to…
The discovery is preliminary, but intriguing: Finding out more about the proteins could help sort out the immune system's role in cystic fibrosis, a genetic…
An understanding of this mechanism, scientists say, provides an important new target for both drugs and dietary changes that might help prevent or treat…
Sandia's Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid.The…
Cell adhesion controls many aspects of brain development including growth and structure, and enables neurons to connect with other neurons and supportive…
This finding should allow researchers to better understand how nicotine dependence works, and perhaps devise new ways to block the craving that keeps humans…
A reexamination of ancient human bones from Romania reveals more evidence that humans and Neandertals interbred. Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., Washington University…
The analysis also appears to shed light on the ancestor of chordates, the backboned animals that include human beings and two small invertebrate groups closely…
Some argue that cancer cells that learn to live in a flat lab dish cannot reflect cancer in the body, but others say that without any other way to study…
The paper, titled “Interface Mobility from Interface Random Walk”, addresses computational issues in extracting interface kinetic parameters under…
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