Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have shown that insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells can form after birth or after injury from progenitor cells…
“These findings have important implications for individualizing therapy,” said Katherine Garman, M.D., a gastroenterology fellow at Duke and lead investigator…
Considered to be the smallest, most chemically inert and least polarizable of the 117 known chemical elements, helium has been challenging chemists for…
The final result provides a highly versatile material that can be used to create a range of high performance materials such as: self healing paints, and clever…
Rice University scientists on the hunt for a better way to clean up the stubborn pollutant TCE have created a method that lets them watch molecules break down…
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have gained new insights into regulation of one of the body's enzyme workhorses called calpains. As the…
So concludes a team of scientists including a University of Florida geneticist. The team's findings, reported in today's online edition of Nature, suggest that…
Matz and his colleagues recently discovered the grape-sized protists and their complex tracks on the ocean floor near the Bahamas. This is the first time a…
The body's immune system hates strangers. When its security patrol spots a foreign cell, it annihilates it.This is the problem when people with type 1 diabetes…
The new upgrade to the Roche GS-FLX™ sequencing system permits more than 1 million individual sequencing reads to be generated for each sequencing run with an…
Biobanks, and studies based on them, have swiftly proliferated in recent years. These repositories of information and/or biological samples from many patients…
A team from the University of Adelaide, the University of Otago and Canterbury Museum in New Zealand, has identified a previously unknown penguin species while…
The best-selling novel ‘The swarm’ captured the imagination of countless readers with the fascination of marine life. But it also showed how little we…
For several years, researchers from ULB have been studying Rhesus factors. These factors belong to a family comprising five proteins, three of which are…
“Human metapneumovirus may be the second most common cause of lower respiratory infection in young children. Studies have shown that by the age of five,…
Rolf Reber, together with mathematician Morten Brun and psychologist Karoline Mitterndorfer, all from the University of Bergen, Norway, have reported first…
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