“I spend a lot of time fretting over the status of the monarch population and I’m always searching for factors or data that will help me understand the past as…
The new approach, reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (published online on Apr. 21st, 2010) , could have wide applicability for designing…
How do children reason about the natural world? How do they understand the relation between human and non-human animals?For decades, the consensus was that as…
In laboratories around the world, researchers are working diligently to gain the upper hand in the ongoing struggle against the influenza virus. In 2009, with…
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble is home to one of the world’s most advanced particle accelerators, whose pulsing X-ray beams are used…
If the patients also receive a dose of fibrinogen prior to the procedure, this reduces the risk of haemorrhage during and after surgery. These results may open…
In a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, researchers have discovered properties of insulin which reduce inflammation…
A pharmaceutical in the body is, in the optimal case, broken down into harmless products (metabolites) that leave the body, for example via the urine. Some…
It is estimated that nearly a third of all diabetic patients may be at risk for diabetic nephropathy, a renal disorder that progresses slowly but can inflict…
Unlocking our genetic blueprint is well underway with the sequencing of the human genome, but a secondary layer of structure on the genome that affects gene…
While laboratory-based technologies for analysis of water contaminants are time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive, the method introduced in a paper…
Scientists have long suspected that the distinct properties of different cells were attributable to their particular epigenomes – the collection of attendant…
In findings that advance scientists' understanding of a whole class of inherited disorders, a team from The Scripps Research Institute has shed light on a…
A team of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers has discovered that common intestinal bacteria appear to promote tumor growths in…
Some people have streets named after them. Warren Piers, a chemistry professor at the University of Calgary, has a catalyst penned after him. And in a paper…
The research also showed that arrestin interacts with several other proteins within cells to regulate longevity. The human version of one of these proteins is…
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