Life Sciences and Chemistry
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New approach to immune cell analysis seen as first step to better distinguish health and disease
Led by Mark Davis, Ph.D., and Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D., of Stanford University, Calif., the team of investigators received support from the National Institute…
Two-faced testosterone can make you nasty or nice
In an evaluation for Faculty of 1000, Robert Sapolsky highlights a study published in Nature which assessed how testosterone affects human behavior in a…
Seafarers' scourge provides hope for biofuel future
But new research by scientists at the BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre at the Universities of York and Portsmouth is uncovering how the tiny marine isopod…
New species discovered on the Great Barrier Reef
The layer of sand on ocean floor is home to a large part of the vast diversity of marine species. Species representing almost all classes of marine animals…
Repeated anaesthesia can affect childrens ability to learn
The study has been published in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism.”Paediatric anaesthetists have long suspected that children who are…
Plants on steroids
Working with Arabidopsis, a member of the cabbage family, a team led by Takeshi Nakano of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako has identified a gene,…