Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have identified an important gene involved in the spread of breast cancer that has developed resistance to long-term…
Investigators at Duke University Medical Center and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have engineered a strain of mice whose olfactory brain cells “fire”…
It has long been known that UV light can damage DNA, reducing its ability to replicate and interact with proteins, and often resulting in the development of…
Researchers have long recognized that for learning and memory to take place, certain genes must be activated to alter neuron activity inside the brain….
Hepatitis A spreads through the consumption of fecal particles from an infected person (in pollution-contaminated food or water, for example), but hepatitis C…
A limitation in using hydrogen as a fuel in hydrogen-powered vehicles is the difficulty involved in storing it in a cost-effective and convenient manner. While…
Malcolm Wicks, Minister for Science, will say at a launch event in London later today: “Stem cell research is an area which offers the potential to provide…
Professor Mohamed Al-Rubeai, currently a UCD Professor of Biochemical Engineering and principal investigator with the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology…
The technique is based on the transmission of tiny electric current in a very thin film sample cell containing a colony of bacteria. The current produces…
The scent of lily of the valley hangs in the air for readers of the journal Angewandte Chemie: just rub the journal’s cover and enjoy a lily-of-the-valley…
The study, carried out by Durham University with Chester Zoo, found that planting a metre-wide barrier of tropical shrubs between the monkeys’ glass-fronted…
January 2007 marked the beginning of the second funding period of HepatoSys*, the Systems Biology Competence Network initiated by the German Federal Ministry…
Immune cells that are the body’s front-line defense don’t necessarily rest quietly until invading bacteria lock onto receptors on their outside skins and rouse…
In recent years, researchers have worked to develop a number of vaccines to help the immune system fight tumors. Cancer vaccines are not intended to prevent…
“Overexpression of HMGA2 is an important feature of many medically important tumors like uterine fibroids,” explains Dr. Dutta. “It is very exciting to realize…
A consortium of Canadian and American researchers report in Nature Genetics the results from a search of the entire human genome for genetic risk factors…
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