The discovery boosts basic understanding of prion infections, and could provide scientists with new ideas for designing drugs that discourage or prevent prion…
The Vaccine Trials Group at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children is recruiting 150 adult volunteers to…
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, late-onset disease of lung parenchyma with unknown etiology. IPF has been treated with corticosteroids and…
Carnegie Mellon University researchers Kris Noel Dahl and Mohammad F. Islam have made a new breakthrough for children suffering from an extremely rare disease…
The ASX-listed company commercialises a novel anti-bacterial technology identified by UNSW researchers at the Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bioinnovation.The trial beginning on June 29 will compare the safety performance of an antibacterial contact lens to that of a standard contact lens. …
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, late-onset disease of lung parenchyma with unknown etiology. IPF has been treated with corticosteroids and…
The life sciences encompass research fields that have a direct impact on our quality of our health, food and environment including pharmaceuticals, genetics,…
From November 2002 to June 2003, 8,500 patients were infected with an at that time unknown pathogen originating in southern China; 800 humans died. Then, the…
Now, evolutionary and developmental biologists at the University of Georgia and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have uncovered evidence that after fruit…
By generating tumors in laboratory mice that mimic human liver cancer and by comparing the DNA of mouse and human tumors, researchers at Cold Spring Harbor…
In the absence of ERK1, ERK2 shows increased activity and it promotes both normal and Ras-dependent cell proliferation. In contrast, increased levels of ERK1…
This ultra-fine, 3-dimensional scaffold, which is made from specially developed polymers, looks similar to tissue paper but has fibres 100 times finer. Before…
In a recent report in the journal Science, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) found abundant colonies of Trichodesmium. The…
Snail family genes are present in vertebrates and have counterparts in invertebrates such as the fruit fly Drosophila. To biologists, this means that these…
Researchers continue to search for genetic clues into rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic inflammatory joint disease. While its specific cause is not yet…
The findings will not only provide insight into how hearing takes place at the molecular level, but also may help us figure out why some people temporarily…
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