The University of Manchester team has laid bare the molecular processes that determine which embryonic skin cells will form into hair follicles and determine…
The metabolic syndrome-a catch-all name for a picture of disturbed sugar regulation, high blood pressure, high blood fats, and obesity-increases the more…
The fundamental idea is to harness the cell-killing power of protons — the naked nuclei of hydrogen atoms — to knock off cancer cells before the cells kill…
Such colourful aurorae regularly light the higher latitudes in the northern and southern hemisphere. They are caused mostly by energetic electrons spiralling…
“Our finding is a complete surprise. We were studying transplant tolerance and what's required to protect a graft from rejection,” says Randolph Noelle,…
Further study of this master switch — a gene called GATA2 — and the genes it controls may uncover a regulatory network that influences whether a person…
In a report, published in the August 25, 2006 issue of the journal, Science, MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) senior scientist Bruce J. Peterson and his…
Cells in an embryo divide at an amazing rate to build a whole body, but this growth needs to be controlled. Otherwise the result may be defects in embryonic…
It used to be thought that it would be physiologically impossible to climb Mount Everest with or without oxygen. In 1953 Hillary and Tenzing proved that it was…
The study, published today in the journal Science, might lead to new medications aimed at helping patients with inflammatory bowel disease. The findings might…
“The K-T caused major extinction among North American plants and insects. The Western Interior U.S. was a dead zone for plants and plant-insect food webs,”…
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have successfully restored normal memory and synaptic function in mice suffering from Alzheimer's disease….
Opening a whole new interface between nanotechnology and neuroscience, scientists at Harvard University have used slender silicon nanowires to detect,…
This research, to be published Friday in the journal Science, contradicts some suggestions that the sudden release of massive amounts of methane frozen in…
Studying the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered a previously unknown way of making fatty acids, a…
Dr Nicholas Graves, from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, said the true cost of surgical infections post hospital discharge was just $74 -…
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