'It is tremendously gratifying that our discovery is being upheld by so many other groups around the world. This firmly establishes that a skin barrier defect…
The MRC Council has approved a recommendation from its Physiological Systems and Clinical Sciences Board to provide an increased budget of £14.9 million over…
The researchers, supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), have found that to protect their offspring, adult wasps have…
In the last few years, that tactic has proved productive for researchers investigating turmeric, a curry spice used for centuries in Indian traditional…
Too much body fat may be a bad thing, but there is increasing evidence that too little fat also may have some surprisingly negative consequences.Researchers at…
A study of the strain by its developers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center (OSUCCC) suggests that the genetic change comes early in the…
These bacteria insert into their host cells proteins and other virulence factors, which kill by — among other things — disrupting the cells' normal structure….
Neuroscience is tackling a problem that obsessed Hamlet: What is the difference in our minds between talk and action?Less than you would expect, an…
But what if in the future a tiny device, one the size of a nickel or significantly smaller, could be implanted in the patient to monitor and detect…
“We are predicting variables that we wish we could measure, but we cannot,” says Dr. James G. Brasseur, professor of mechanical engineering, bioengineering and…
In the Sept. 17 online issue of Nature Genetics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers report the identification of a mutation that causes severe…
In an upcoming G&D paper, a team of German scientists presents a genetic basis for understanding human morning lark behavior. Dr. Achim Kramer (Charité…
Dr Falconer, a Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry based in the Institute of Cancer Therapeutics at the University of Bradford explains: “On the surface of cancer…
BBSRC and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have committed at least £30M to a new Systems Approaches to Biological Research…
Both organizations coincide in emphasising that nanotechnology may have direct applications in medicine by contributing to improvements in health and quality…
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