Why octopuses?Octopuses and other related creatures, known as cephalopods, are considered to be the most intelligent invertebrates because they have relatively…
Research published today in BioMed Central’s open access journal Molecular Cancer describes ‘CoMet’ – a tool that studies the integrated machinery of the cell…
Now a new research project using the X chromosome (present in one copy in men but two in women) will be the first readily applicable non sex-specific…
The findings of the study, performed at three German universities, may indicate why death due to heart disease has decreased among diabetic men but not in…
As it draws to a close, EuroDYNA (Dynamic Nuclear Architecture and Chromatin Function) is leaving behind a healthy European ecosystem of interacting…
Scientists know that heredity plays an important role in causing heart attacks. However the exact genetic mechanisms that transmit the risk of heart attacks…
Here, researchers developed an automated technique of estimating quality based on fruit colour captured in JPEG format. This research has won the following…
This finding might someday allow a person’s own nerve stem cells to be grown outside the body, stimulated into maturity, and then re-implanted as working nerve…
Traditionally, glass micro- and nanofluidic devices are fabricated by etching tiny channels into a glass wafer with the same lithographic procedures used to…
Centromeric recombination has been hard to study because the DNA at centromeres is so repetitive—it's hard to see when a segment has switched chromatids. Jaco…
After a close examination of crude oil made from pig manure, chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are certain about a number…
While the results may not rival the artistry of glassblowers in Europe and Latin America, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology…
The group from the Department of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio, led by Tariq Haqqi, showed that blood samples collected from…
This is reported by Dr. Daniel Peeper and his colleagues from the Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL) in the June 13 issue…
Published today The Pattern Recognition Theory of Humour by Alastair Clarke answers the centuries old question of what is humour. Clarke explains how and why…
The way this structure changes and responds to external signalling molecules within the cell determines how and when genes are expressed and also the…
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