A new study published in the February 2007 issue of the American Journal of Medical Genetics reveals that individuals with genetic conditions are twice as…
What caused the extinction of the mammoth while other ice age mammals like the musk ox just barely survived to present day. A new scientific methodological…
Dr. Michael Gotthardt and his co-workers at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, together with Professor Hendrikus…
Research studies demonstrating the viability of an approach to routinely detect the presence of fetal DNA in a mother's blood to accurately diagnose or rule…
In addition to shedding light on the biology of cleft palate, the research raises hopes that it may one day be possible to prevent many types of human birth…
The MAPK p38-alpha is a signaling protein that plays a critical role in coordinating cellular responses to stress, including oxidative stress that is…
In a new study published online this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, Tessa Burch-Smith, Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar, and colleagues show how one…
A powerful two-gene test distinguishes between a pair of nearly identical gastrointestinal cancers that require radically different courses of treatment,…
The researchers say the finding offers the strongest evidence yet that treatments designed to increase levels of lubricin in humans may help stall the…
Bioengineers and public health researchers have developed a novel spray drying method for preserving and delivering the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine….
Keratinocytes come from the skin, making them a particularly attractive stem cell source because of their ready accessibility. One day, they could be used to…
Purdue University researchers bound a complex nanomolecule, called a dendrimer, with a glowing identification tag that was delivered to specific proteins in…
The dementia is Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), a neurological disease in which people have trouble recalling and understanding words. In PPA, people lose…
The research, published online in Nature, is the first time the genetic makeup of any disease has been mapped in such detail. It should enable scientists to…
Since it was first extracted from the herb Sweet Wormwood (Artemisia annua) by Chinese scientists in the 1980s, artemisinin has proven to be a potent…
A decades-old cancer mystery has been solved by researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). “We not only found a critical tumor suppressor gene, but…
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