C&EN Senior Business Editor Melody Voith notes that friction, the heat produced when objects rub together, wastes fuel in engines and other machinery and…
Parents of children with undiagnosed learning disorders, developmental deficits, and congenital abnormalities face a host of psychological and social…
The bauxite residue now covers 40 square kilometers south of the Danube River, and has caused the deaths of eight Hungarians and injured at least 150. The…
Professor Owe Orwar and his team of scientists from Chalmers, and the Université Paris Diderot, France, show that adhering lipid bilayer membranes and cell…
Without the interference of this gene’s function, certain liver cancer cells appear to be protected from the toxic effects of chemotherapy drugs.Blocking the…
The research, led by Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, PhD, The Saunder Family Professor in Neurology, and Professor of Psychiatry and Geriatrics and Adult…
A redesigned version of the CTC-Chip – a microchip-based device for capturing rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) – appears to be more effective and should be…
With people, on the other hand, disturbances to their biological clocks by drastic changes in their daily schedules are known to cause problems — for example…
A research team at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center in Beer-Sheva, Israel has detected a genetic mutation resulting in a…
“Infection during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of damage to the developing nervous system. Given that many agents have been implicated, we…
When it comes to gambling, many people rely on game theory, a branch of applied mathematics that attempts to measure the choices of others to inform their own…
A University of Missouri researcher believes his latest work moves scientists closer to a cure for cystic fibrosis, one of the world’s most common fatal…
The report says that claims that these services are leading to a new era of ‘personalised healthcare’ are overstated and should be treated with caution. The…
Based on material’s properties of (cancer) cells the physicist Prof. Dr. Josef A. Käs as well as the medical scientist Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Höckel came to the…
Using a relatively new methodology called comparative population genomics, these scientists compare the entire genomes of different populations of the same…
Bees are important pollinators of crops as well as the plants in our gardens. The John Innes Centre, an institute of the BBSRC, is committed to research that…
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