Plant-insect ecologists typically attribute the differences to variation in the nutritional quality or defective chemistry of plant tissues. However, the…
The researchers used the MChip to detect H5N1 in samples collected over a three-year period from people and animals in geographically diverse locales. In tests…
In a study using electron cryomicroscopy, Dr. Steven Ludtke, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and co-director of the National Center…
The markers also may prove useful as “early warning systems” for coronary artery disease, alerting physicians to patients who need preventive treatment to keep…
Results from the genetically-engineered mice, published online Nov. 14 in the journal Genes and Development, suggest that the mice could provide new…
Cell biologists at Jefferson Medical College and the Kimmel Cancer Center of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have found that the protein fragment…
A variety of DNA microarray technology, one of the two new chips, called the TIP-chip (transposable element insertion point) can locate in the genome where…
At this week's AVS 53rd International Symposium & Exhibition in San Francisco, Michael Lochhead, a bioengineer at the Denver biotechnology company Accelr8,…
Daily events are minted into memories in the hippocampus, one of the oldest parts of the brain. For long-term storage, scientists believe that memories move to…
Developing new medicines is usually a long and costly process. Now, methods are being developed at Norwegian University of Science and Technology – that allow…
How does the immune system manage to keep pace with this diversity? For the first time scientists from the GSF – Research Centre for Environment and Health and…
Biologists Marin Moravec, Professor Nancy Burley and Professor Georg Striedter conducted the study, which was published in Ethology in early November. The…
Through the secondment of Business Development Managers in the participating centres Transvac aims to find an effective way to manage biomedical research…
The collaboration will involve the permanent presence of a Farminerva S.r.l. section on the science park, and will join two other biotechnology companies…
However, our breath does not only betray what we have consumed; some diseases also produce telltale breath odors. Breath analysis has some interesting…
Two studies in the November 2006 issue of the journal Cancer Cell, published by Cell Press, provide mechanistic details that may explain why the small-molecule…