Wilms tumors, also known as nephroblastomas, are among the more common solid tumors in children. They tend to appear before the age of six and are categorized…
In the summers of 2001 and 2004, blackbirds died on a massive scale in Austria. At that time, researchers at the Vetmeduni Vienna analysed more than 600…
Vectors derived from adeno-associated viruses (AAV) were used as vehicles for targeted gene transfer by the research group of Professor Christian J. Buchholz,…
By combining experimental data from X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, cryoelectron microscopy and lipidomics (the study of cellular lipid networks),…
Not unlike an urban restaurant, the success of a bacterial cell depends on three things: localization, localization and localization. But the complete set of…
–A good drug is hard to design: to garner FDA approval and reach consumers, it must not only effectively treat a medical condition, but it must also do so…
The hippocampus is an anatomical area of the brain classically involved in memory formation and modulation of emotional behavior. This is also one of the very…
“Atesi” – what sounds like a word from the Elven language of Lord of the Rings is actually a Vimmish word meaning “thought”. Scientists from the Max Planck…
Blood vessels that supply the brain with vital oxygen are suddenly blocked by blood clots; this causes nerve cells to die, and the sufferer develops symptoms…
Nerve cells form a bewildering meshwork of connections called synapses – up to several thousand per cell. Yet not all synaptic connections are equal. The…
“Studying the cues that species use to discriminate each other often poses a challenge to scientists,” explains James Higham, an assistant professor of…
Cyanobacteria, bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis, are of considerable interest as bio-factories, organisms that could be harnessed to…
Whether or not infertility can be treated with stem cells has been a matter of debate for many years.
The scientists went to the remote tropical forests of South East Asia to study this tiny wasp species, named Liostenogaster flavolineata.
Nature lovers are fascinated by the increasing number of singing birds when spring is approaching. Scientists also take advantage of this seasonal phenomenon…
This could play an important role in the species´ ability to adapt to the effects of climate change, as AWI experts report in a recently published study in the…
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