Scientists from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Lund University and Novartis today announced the discovery of three unsuspected regions of human DNA…
The anti-hepatitis C activity of the protein, called “p21-activated kinase 1” (PAK1), was discovered by scientists at the University of Texas Medical Branch at…
An article detailing the colorimetric screening technology and its success detecting mercury will be published online April 27 by Angewandte Chemie, the…
The periodic table of elements, all 111 of them, just got a little competition. A new discovery by a University of Missouri-Columbia research team, published…
Morphine, as little as a single dose, blocks the brain’s ability to strengthen connections at inhibitory synapses, according to new Brown University research…
In the May 1 issue of Genes & Development, UVa researchers Drs. Yong Sun Lee and Anindya Dutta have shown that microRNAs can suppress the overexpression of a…
The Western scrub-jay is native to the western United States, and, like squirrels and other food-caching animals, these birds readily store food for the future…
Degussa yesterday in Frankfurt signed a letter of intent with the Russian space-sector organizations TsSKB Progress (manufacturer of the Soyuz rocket) and…
Kourou Space Center, French Guyana. A Soyuz rocket awaits take-off. The men and women at the mission control center in Kourou are all hard at work; the air is…
The researchers found that women with a certain hereditary deformity syndrome run a nearly twenty times higher risk of contracting breast cancer than expected.Several research teams around the world have long been searching for new hereditary breast cancer genes, but thus far few have been found….
It’s well known that food-associated cues, such as advertising, can influence food intake. But the underlying neurobiology is far from clear. Craig A. Schiltz…
The University’s School of Pharmacy, and spin-out company Molecular Profiles, a leader in the provision of innovative contract research services, have each won…
The bacterium, Helicobacter pylori (Hp), lives in the stomachs of approximately half the world’s population. Dr Karen Robinson, a lecturer at the Centre of…
Lizards gave rise to legless snakes. Cave fishes don’t have eyeballs. In evolution, complicated structures often get lost. Dollo’s Law states that complicated…
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered an important step in cortisol production, finding that although the output of the hormone is…
Since the parasite constantly changes its surface, it can avoid the immune defense of humans and invade the central nervous system, which leads to personality…
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