By comparing the heights of women who had given birth to twins or triplets with the average height of women in the United States, Gary Steinman, MD, PhD, an…
The problem comes in finding the dividing line between the two worlds — or even in establishing that such a line exists. To that end, Keith Schwab, associate…
In only a few generations, the male cricket on Kauai, one of the Hawaiian Islands, underwent a mutation – a sudden heritable change in its genetic material –…
As many as 500,000 IVD-related bloodstream infections occur in the United States each year and lead to increased morbidity and prolonged hospital stays, from…
Low-income adults are more likely to have very high levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a risk factor for heart disease, according to a study led by…
Aquaporins are a class of proteins that form membrane channels in cell walls and allow for water movement between a cell and its surroundings. A number of…
“We can monitor the process directly, and that gives us a different perspective,” said Roberto Galletto, a postdoctoral scholar at UC Davis and first author on…
“As honeybees become more scarce, it becomes more important to have better pollinators,” said Sarah Greenleaf, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis and first…
During an expedition off the South American coast, an international team of ocean scientists discovered that the gases ethane and propane are widespread, and…
More than 12-million Americans have tried methamphetamine (also known as meth, crank, crystal and speed), which can be swallowed, injected, snorted or smoked,…
McMaster University has unveiled the first interactive motion simulator to be used for teaching undergraduate students how to develop software for simulated…
A team of 15 scientists headed by Gary Morris of Valparaiso University in Indiana analyzed data from a variety of sources, including weather balloons launched…
In the October issue of the Annals of Surgery, the researchers report that the duodenal switch (DS) produced greater weight loss than the Roux-en-Y gastric…
This mode was developed through tight teamwork between ESOC mission controllers, principal investigators, industry and mission management. In the past weeks,…
The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK (OMII-UK) provides software and support on which the UK e-Science community and its international collaborators…
Bio-Nector is an exclusively Internet and e-mail-based service relying on a simple principle: as a matchmaking service, it brokers contacts between companies…
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