Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that increasing the brain level of receptors for dopamine, a…
Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) Associate Professor Ruth Ganss and her team have found that a gene called RGS5 can reverse…
Professor David Craik and Dr Richard Clark from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience have received $218,275 from the National Health and Medical Research…
Researchers have come closer to understanding how these bacteria manage to thwart two major categories of immune defenses at once and set up shop in a host…
The four investigators compared key benchmarks in the development of 28 different primate species, ranging from humans living free of modern trappings in South…
With C. elegans , a common microscopic worm that lives in dirt, Iqbal Hamza, assistant professor of animal and avian sciences, and his team identified…
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) have now developed a new strategy for the formation of hybrid materials from synthetic polymers and…
Their findings appear in Nature Methods.Scientists have known for more than a century that proteins, such as histones, aid in packing DNA into the nucleus of a…
RA is a chronic, debilitating, inflammatory disease of the joints, which is usually treated with anti-inflammatory drugs such as methotrexate or steroids….
The proponents of intelligent design believe that chance and selection are too casual and slow to allow complex new properties to arise. In particular, they…
In Germany, about 8 million people are affected. These numbers could even be an underestimation as a relatively high number of undiagnosed diabetics remains….
There will soon be an easier way of doing it: The police officers will only need to pick up a 3-D sensor, press a button as on a camera, and a few seconds…
Migraine is the most common cause of episodic headache, and by far the most common neurological cause of a doctor’s visit. It affects some 15% of the…
Jonathan Coloff, a graduate student in Assistant Professor Jeffrey Rathmell’s laboratory in the Duke Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, has found…
Their findings are being published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B in London on April 16.Metrosideros, commonly called “ohi’a” in the…
Proteins that control cell division play a far more nuanced role than researchers previously thought in the process that gives rise to reproductive cells,…