When the compound Gly-His-Lys (GHK) was applied to lung cells from patients with emphysema, normal gene activity in altered cells was restored and damaged…
“Among other things, this type of lithography can be used to manufacture chips for use in biological sensors that can identify target molecules, such as…
The paper analytical device (PAD) is the size of a business card and offers results in less than five minutes. It’s technology that could ferret out other fake…
Legend has it that Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” University of Missouri researchers…
The technique could lead to a new type of diagnostic imaging technology and may someday serve as a way to move medications to parts of the body where signs of…
A team of researchers from Louisiana State University and the American Museum of Natural History has discovered that two groups of blind cave fishes on…
As the national waistline expands, so do pools of intra-cellular fat known as lipid droplets. Although most of us wish our lipid droplets would vanish, they…
“It was shown that Internet addiction is not a figment of our imagination,” says the lead author, Privatdozent Dr. Christian Montag from the Department for…
Population ecologists Pejman Rohani and Victoria Brown used a mathematical model to explore the consequences of altered interactions between an important…
Yet conserving this biological richness is made difficult because it varies in complex ways at different scales of space and time. The problem of scale emerges…
When a cell divides, it passes on genetic information by producing copies of its DNA. Chemists have also learned to copy DNA. In the journal Angewandte Chemie,…
The presence of carbon monoxide (CO) impurities in hydrogen gas (H2) can have a detrimental impact on the performance of fuel cells. Recent studies have shown…
A drug originally developed to stop cancerous tumors may hold the potential to prevent abnormal brain cell growth and learning disabilities in some children,…
First place in an EU competitive call on “Unconventional Computing” was awarded to a collaborative proposal coordinated by Prof. John McCaskill from the RUB…
Some people may have fewer, but larger RBCs, while others may have a larger number of smaller RBCs. Although these differences in size and number may seem…
Although it is too early to attach significance to the drug candidates, two possible matches popped up: A drug in development for breast cancer (not approved…