Modern scientists know there is a grain of truth to the tale, says MIT engineer Sangeeta Bhatia: The liver can indeed regenerate itself if part of it is…
The results of the study of more than 2,000 tumors, being presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), both surprised…
Researchers have utilised high quality DNA sequences to demonstrate the usefulness and quality of the sequence to identify genetic markers that can lead to…
The new method, which is described in the scientific periodical Nature Methods, can be of value to both DNA nanotechnology and the development of drugs…
Led by Tyler Lyson of Yale University and the Smithsonian Institution, the researchers maintain that a 260-million-year-old reptile from South Africa,…
This finally answers a question that has been haunting several plant scientists around the world for many years. The findings provide new leads for breeding…
Scientists at the University of Berkeley and the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) have managed, for the very first time, to take direct,…
Structural biologists from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have captured the first three-dimensional crystalline snapshot of a critical…
A Swiss-Japanese research team suggests that mTECs do not share a common progenitor with cortical-thymic TECs (cTECs) that produce T cells, but may actually…
Heat shock proteins, particularly the 70-kilodalton heat shock proteins, Hsp70, are important for cellular processes such as protein folding and protecting…
A study led by Boston University School of Medicine has identified a novel approach to create an unlimited number of human red blood cells and platelets in…
Now, scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) Braunschweig and at the Otto von Guericke University (OvGU) Magdeburg have published their…
The research not only demonstrates that mosquitoes can be genetically altered using the latest research techniques, but paves the way to understanding why the…
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has established a new Collaborative Research Center on “Nanodimensional polymer therapeutics for tumor therapy” (CRC 1066)…
The E7 protein is produced early in the lifecycle of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and blocks the body's natural defences against the uncontrolled division of…
Influenza A viral infection can lead to primary pneumonia and, later on, to serious complications including secondary bacterial pneumonia and sepsis….
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