The DICOEMS project has developed a wireless technology platform enabling doctors in hospital emergency rooms to remotely manage treatment of accident and…
An enzyme known to be critical for the repair of damaged cells and the maintenance of cellular energy may be a useful target for new strategies to treat…
They’ve found that different genes may be responsible for causing autism in boys than in girls. In addition, the researchers also have discovered that other…
“We have identified a key protein that acts together with a family of molecular switches to turn on cholesterol and fat (or lipid) production,” says principal…
Working in labs that resemble machine shops, these engineers are taking small steps toward the holy grail of robotics – cooperative autonomy – making machines…
Dr Andrew Watts from the University of Bath (UK) and Dr Jennifer McKimm-Breschkin from CSIRO (Australia) have been awarded over £408,000 from the Medical…
Metabolic syndrome, an aging-associated group of disorders that includes insulin resistance, heart disease and high lipid levels, may be treatable thanks to a…
In a forthcoming study in Nature Chemical Biology, investigators at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Medical Research Council of Molecular…
“At this point, we can only speculate about this gene’s role in the evolution of the human brain, but it’s exciting to find a new gene involved in brain…
In a computer-based search for pieces of DNA that have undergone the most change since the ancestors of humans and chimps diverged, “Human Accelerated Region…
By way of example: every week, more than one thousand new papers reach the database of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN in French), in…
The ScanBalt Clinical Research Network project, launched in March 2005, was successfully finished in April 2006. The ScanBalt Clinical Research Network was a…
Now, Zuker, Ryba, and their team of researchers have identified the cells and the receptor responsible for sour taste, the primary gateway in all mammals for…
This plasticity is of crucial importance for crop productivity in variable, heterogeneous environments; it is thus a target for varietal breeding operations….
AKARI was launched on February 21st 2006 from Uchinoura Space Centre, Japan, and is now about half way to completing its first map of the sky in infrared…
The State, officially the owner of all land, allocated to each family a right of use on rice-growing land and then on forest land. One of the objectives of…
Scientists at Michigan State University report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have identified genes unique to the…
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is caused by a virus; the main symptoms are pneumonia and fever. The virus is passed on when people sneeze or cough….
The “Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research” (DRIVER) project responds to the vision that any form of scientific-content resource,…
Solar System Update brings together the work of 19 physicists, astronomers, and climatologists from Europe and the USA in 12 chapters on the sun, the main…
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