Flies in which this hereditary factor is defective are also significantly smaller than other members of their species and live appreciably longer. The gene…
Housed in a 27 kilometre tunnel beneath the French-Swiss border near Geneva, the LHC is the world’s largest and most complex scientific instrument. Experiments…
The finding, reported in this week’s issue of Science by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and elsewhere, should make it…
COROT is a French national space agency (CNES)-led mission to which the European Space Agency and European partners are adding a particularly strong…
The new species of nototheniid fish, Cryothenia amphitreta, is detailed in the December issue of the quarterly journal Copeia. Paul A. Cziko, a research…
A team from the Institut Pasteur has recently shown that the tuberculosis bacillus hides from the immune system in its host’s fat cells. This formidable…
Yuan-Ping Pang, Ph.D., a chemist and expert in computer-aided molecular design at Mayo Clinic, identified two unique amino acid residues called cysteine (286)…
Mosquitoes in the genus Anopheles are best known as the vectors of malaria and E. culicivora is the first predator that has been found to single out Anopheles…
Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI) announced today the results of a first of its kind study analyzing all published data…
Participants, who were asked to pick the odd one out on a screen covered in over 650 identical symbols, including one rotated version of the same symbol,…
Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center have discovered a novel gene mutation associated with Wilms tumor, the most common…
The new W-mass value leads to an estimate for the mass of the yet-undiscovered Higgs boson that is lighter than previously predicted, in principle making…
In the COMPORTA project, work is being carried out with these people severely disabled in the upper limbs. The aim of the project is to adapt a portable…
The findings are in the January 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). In this study, patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia…
In one city in southwestern Ohio , researchers found that 71 percent of lost dogs were found, compared to just 53 percent of lost cats.More than a third of the…
Understanding the electronic and geometric structures of gold nanoclusters is a key step towards understanding their behavior under different conditions, such…
Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, is no more visible for observers in the Northern Hemisphere. It does put an impressive show in the South however and…
The research, putting proteins often linked to heart disease front and center in a brain disease whose causes remain a mystery, hark back to what German…
Surveying vast stellar fields to learn about star interiors and to search for extra-solar planets is the goal of this unique mission, whose scientific…
According to the researchers, such a therapy would essentially take advantage of a weakness of the disease: that the majority of growth- and…