Dr Nicole Jones and her team discovered that during oxygen deprivation, or 'hypoxia', these proteins (HIF1á and PHD2) increase. These proteins regulate…
To reduce the likelihood that these discoveries will be exploited for destructive ends, the authors of the 2006 report, “Globalization, Biosecurity, and the…
Web services provide a standard means of interlinking two or more discrete software applications, each of which could be hosted on quite different platforms…
This unique ability of animals to combine sensory information is something that machines could do well to emulate. Earlier this week the Department of…
Carbon nanotubes – tubes formed from a repeating arrangement of carbon atoms with diameter of the order of a billionth of a meter – have remarkable mechanical,…
According to the data of different international organizations provided and analysed by professors Yolanda Castro Díez and María Jesús Esteban Parra, of the…
The SMART-1 spacecraft is currently expected to impact the Moon's surface on 3 September 2006, at 07:41 CEST (05:41 UT). However, it is also possible that the…
In the next few weeks 12 volunteers will each drink a pint of cider, while avoiding all other dietary sources of antioxidants, to give the research team a…
Anil Pradhan, professor of astronomy, and his team have used supercomputers to perform the most precise energy calculations ever made for these atoms and their…
Engineers here determined that the technique greatly outperformed other methods by removing at least 95 percent of a toxin secreted by Microcystis, a…
The device, which uses an electrical charge to create a cooling air jet right at the surface of the chip, could be critical to advancing computer technology…
The process that gives rise to mutations in DNA, or mutagenesis, is a complex one involving a series of chemical reactions, which are not completely…
New research published by Rice University biologists in this week's issue of Nature finds that even the simplest of social creatures – single-celled amoebae –…
“This is a big step forward in the quest to understand why there is so much biodiversity in the tropics,” said Weiblen, principal investigator and senior…
Research from Brandeis University published online this week in Nature offers new insight into how neural circuits are shaped by experience. The article…
The special issue covers a range of topics, including an estimate of the viral transmission risk for visitors to a monkey temple in Indonesia, and a study…
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