The study may help explain why roughly 5 percent of women develop diabetes temporarily while pregnant, a condition called gestational diabetes. That condition…
A paper announcing the results will be published in the journal Science on 2 November, 2008. The team was led by William J. Murphy, associate professor in the…
Danish researchers have now developed a method, which can help expose a complicated but crucial part of the immune system's defence mechanisms. This method can…
Bolstering disintegrating neural connections may help boost brainpower in Alzheimer's disease patients, MIT researchers and colleagues will report in the Nov….
Tommi Nyman of the University of Joensuu in Finland together with colleagues from Sweden and Germany uncovered a food web involving willow trees, sawflies, and…
Fungal infections (mycoses) were once seen as exotic diseases, but this is changing rapidly. Although rarely life-threatening in healthy patients, fungal…
According to the results now published, stress induces the production of amyloid beta (Aâ) peptide – the molecule associated with the neural plaques…
Fruit flies are a useful model for investigating the contribution genes make to human alcohol sensitivity because, like humans, fruit flies can get 'drunk' if…
In a paper published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, a team of experts, including researchers from the University of Canterbury, says the number…
New diagnostic algorithm for mapping different types of mild cognitive impairmentDespite intensive use of the term “mild cognitive impairment” (MCI) to…
When polypeptides fail to achieve or maintain their proper conformation, they commonly aggregate into abnormal “amyloid fibril” structures. Amyloid fibrils…
Our sense of smell often takes a back seat to our other senses, but humans can perceive up to 10,000 different odors. Like mice, which boast a highly developed…
When a host cell is infected with HIV, the virus brings its own genetic material into the host cell. This cell then replicates, reads the viral RNA, and uses…
The fruit fly antennal lobe is analogous to the olfactory bulb in humans.Researchers at the University of Illinois found that in the fly’s antennal lobe a…
A new chemical spray detector developed by Prof. Joseph Almog of the Hebrew University's Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry detects the home-made explosive…
Platinum complexes such as the well-known cisplatin are powerful antitumor medications.They cross the cell membrane and reach the nucleus, where they attach to…
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