RA is the most common of all chronic inflammatory joint diseases, affecting 0.5-1% of the population in the industrialised world. Its typical symptoms are…

Buried beneath a sulfurous cauldron in European seas lies a class of microorganisms known as “extremophiles,” so named because of the extreme environmental…

The link between calorie restriction and a longer, healthier life may lie in the head, not in the gut, MIT biologists report.Dietary restriction extends…

In 2004 Koichi Itagaki discovered an exploding star in the galaxy UGC4904 (78 million light years away in the Lynx constellation), which rapidly faded from…

Huntington’s disease is caused by a mutation of a gene that the produces the Huntington protein. This protein influences a number of processes in the cells of…

A global collaboration of astronomers led by Queen’s University Belfast, teamed up with Japanese supernova hunter, Koichi Itagaki, to report an amazing new…

In their report in Nature Genetics, published online on Sunday 17 June 2007, the researchers compared the genomes of L. infantum and L. braziliensis, which…

Asian bees are known to have found their way into Australian ports at least half a dozen times in the last decade.This time it’s a Javanese strain of the bee…

Our bodies could not maintain their existence without thousands of proteins performing myriad vital tasks within cells. Since malfunctioning proteins can cause…

Women in the age group of 50–59 years who participated in the estrogen-alone arm of the WHI study were asked immediately after the early cessation of the trial…

Out-of-date policies are undermining unprecedented opportunities for recent aid commitments to improve the environment and combat poverty, according to…

Scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have just completed a successful test of new robotic vehicles designed for use…

The work could help researchers understand the complex protein networks that influence human disease, including cancer. The researchers report their findings…

The University of Warwick has been working closely with the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee (JRCALC) for the last six years developing…

A search for the molecular clues of longevity has taken Mayo Clinic researchers down another path that could explain why some people who consume excessive…

The study is the result of twelve years of monitoring the dynamics of rabies virus infection (European bat lyssavirus subtype 1 – EBL1) in two wild bat (Myotis…

The importance of the last finding resides in the fact that gene variations – contrary to the extremely rare mutations – are relatively common in the…

They are difficult to sample and study owing to the mixing the oceanographic vessel provokes between this superficial layer and the deeper strata of water….

A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher thinks she has found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to solve difficult IT problems of…

This process does not get rid of the existing disparities, but sets them in a different form. While the disparities are clear to see between the countries of…