Researchers argue that the rate of development of drugs (and of some vaccines and diagnostics) would increase if more incentives were created using patent…
This could lead to improved yields of food crops for both human and animal consumption. Researchers are also working on ‘molecular farming’ – production of…
Nonetheless, human beings are also victims of these emissions, and involuntarily (what is known in this scientific field as “inadvertent exposure”), every day…
Blood cells have limited lifespans, which means that they must be continually replaced by calling up reserves, and turning these into the blood cell types…
“Although the direct threat from climate-related infectious diseases in the UK is likely to be limited to food and waterborne disease,” says Professor Hunter,…
Although the cause of these cognitive impairments is still unknown, UF researchers suspect the metabolic disturbances obesity causes could be taking a toll on…
If anything in cancer biology can be likened to a cage match, this is it: the battle inside the cell walls between LTag, “The Most Amazing Molecule in the…
A team of researchers has genetically engineered normal immune cells to become specialized tumor fighters, demonstrating for the first time that these…
Their crystal structure of the large T antigen/p53 complex interaction will be featured on the September 1st cover of G&D (see accompanying image).The Simian…
Lead poisoning is a major factor limiting the success of efforts to rebuild populations of the endangered California condor. Since the mid-1980s, condors have…
Scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center have discovered a molecular mechanism that maintains memories in the brain. In an article in Science magazine, they…
That's why one of the most common lab tests performed in industry is one that looks for traces of water in other substances, even though the test itself is…
This end only comes to the heavies of the neighborhood, those that weigh 30 times as much as our sun or more. When it happens, their dazzling light can be seen…
Mice missing BAG3 seem fine at birth, but when they start using their muscles to breathe and stand, muscle cells rapidly degenerate and cannot regenerate, says…
A team of scientists from the Weizmann Institute's Plant Sciences Department, led by Prof. Avigdor Scherz, has found that a switch in just two amino acids (the…
Freedom of expression is great, but silence is golden – at least when it comes to amoebae, which are intestine-dwelling parasites that cause life-threatening…
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