Led by Corey Nislow, a U of T Assistant Professor with the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and Department of Molecular Genetics, the team…
This advance could help scientists develop better ways of deriving useful cell populations for therapeutic and research purposes.Although human embryonic stem…
University of Nottingham researchers are launching a major clinical trial to find out whether stem cells taken from a sufferer’s own body could provide…
The study, published November 30 in PLoS Genetics, uses a newly available database called AGEMAP to document the process of aging in mice at the molecular…
The independent trial run by clinicians at The University of Nottingham has received funding of nearly £1million from the Department of Health’s National…
In a special issue of Disease Markers, published by IOS Press, eleven articles explore new developments in the identification and understanding of biomarkers…
The researchers discovered that the Par-4 gene kills cancer cells, but not normal cells. There are very few molecules that specifically fight against cancer…
A new catalyst-free, self-healing material system developed by researchers at the University of Illinois offers a far less expensive and far more practical way…
An outbreak of lymphogranuloma venereum has been detected following reports of the disease in Europe. “From October 2004 to the end of April 2007, 492 cases of…
The experimental device works by using sunlight to convert the glucose into hydrogen to power the cell, which produces several hundred millivolts.The use of…
Attempts to cure brain-related disorders have proved less successful than therapies for other major conditions such as heart cancer, even though just as many…
This is the first study that shows the 3D structure of a molecular complex found in the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis that repairs DNA damage. According…
Biologists at Liverpool will investigate the role of the NF-kappaB signalling system to determine how cells decide when to die. NFkB governs responses within…
Or, did the ancestors of today’s Native Americans come from other parts of Asia or Polynesia, arriving multiple times at several places on the two continents,…
The fundamental challenges.Infections have always been among the principal causes of death in the human species. In the developed world, microbes may be…
Liesbeth Winter of the Leiden University Medical Center, however, was able to prove the concept of using the embryonic potential of adult human cells to train…