“The brain pressure implant is an alternative to pressure measuring catheters in clinical treatment”, states Matthias Wenzel from CMT. “An external unit sends…
“Because movie smoking is linked to adolescent smoking, it was important to us to clearly and quantitatively understand how and when cigarette use is depicted…
Spectral data from an ARPES study at Beamline 7.0.1 of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source revealed the two discrete peaks (blue for the holon and red for the…
The work is another step toward “laboratory on a chip” applications in which vibrating strings can be used to detect and identify biological molecules. The…
In an international collaboration, researchers from the United States and Australia identified and evaluated four non-familial, sporadic occurrences of MECP2…
University of Cambridge scientists have discovered that older meerkats teach pups how to obtain food by incrementally introducing dead, injured and then live…
Under study is the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae, better known as the disease agent of bacterial speck. The pathogen reared its speckled head in…
In a pair of studies published on the Journal of Clinical Oncology website http://www.jco.org/early_release/, and slated to appear in the journal's Aug. 1…
HIV infection of T cells requires activation of a molecule on the surface of B cells, a finding that reveals yet another pathway the virus uses in its…
Craig Pikaard, Ph.D., Washington University professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and his collaborators have described the roles that eight proteins in…
The diagnosis of medically unexplained symptoms is a problem that affects millions of people and can tax an already over-burdened health care system, according…
“If we know a person likes one type of food, this kind of study helps us better predict what other types of foods he or she might prefer,” said Brian Wansink,…
This research, promoted by the Fundación BBVA and the Hospital Clínic in Manhiça (Mozambique), demonstrates that the intermittent treatment with…
In 2001, six research partners (the Martin Luther University of Halle, the German research institute iba, the University of Genova, SINTEF, the Dutch catheter…
The potential production of fish blood is about 12,000 metric tons in 2006, of which 3,000 tons are presently available for use. Salmon blood, for example,…
Malaria is responsible for about a million deaths every year in sub-Saharan Africa, and is the single biggest killer in children under five. The…