Reported in the advance issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (which appears on-line the week of January 8) the findings point to a…
The researchers have discovered a new group of microscopic organisms, which they have baptized “picobiliphytes”: pico because of their extremely small size,…
While scientists are just beginning to answer basic questions about how Campylobacter jejuni (campylobacter) causes infection, Robert Watson, a graduate…
For example, to prepare the highly active cardiovascular medication digoxin effective methods have to be developed to extract medicinal substances –…
The research was carried out by PhD student, Jonathan Bones, working under the supervision of Professor Brett Paull at DCU's National Centre for Sensor…
The Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis researchers who made the discovery set out with low hopes for the combination therapy because on its…
Cambridge scientists have discovered the stage at which some of the cells of a fertilised mammalian egg are fated to develop into stem cells and why this…
The study examined a recently discovered enzyme called PMR1. That enzyme attaches to certain mRNA molecules and remains there like a hand grenade with its pin…
The study examined human pancreatic tumor tissue and compared it to nearby normal tissue and control tissue for levels of microRNA (miRNA). It identified about…
A collaborative team led by Erkki Ruoslahti, M.D., Ph.D., of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research at UC Santa Barbara (Burnham) has developed…
This accomplishment is expected to make it possible to produce enough of the promising drugs for use in clinical trials.In a study featured on the cover of the…
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) recently made significant strides toward settling a decades-old debate centering on the role played…
The study of 987 men and women with stable coronary heart disease revealed that the higher a patient's level of NT-proBNP, the greater the chance the patient…
Diabetes is the leading cause of end-stage kidney disease worldwide, an illness that requires either kidney dialysis treatments or a kidney transplant for…
This is the first time scientists have been able to probe the “dark” energy state — so called because it cannot be detected by fluorescence techniques used to…
University of California, Riverside genetics Professor Norman Ellstrand led a team of researchers whose findings suggest that harnessing the sexual…