A research group led by Professor Nigel Minton in the Centre for Healthcare Associated Infections (CHAI), with Dr Peter Mullany at University College, London…
The research group led by professor Mart Saarma, Director of the Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, has discovered a novel neurotrophic factor…
Investigating life processes in extreme environments not only can provide hints on how life first appeared and survived on Earth (as early earth was an extreme…
The findings of this research may be of great importance for the development of new treatment strategies for Parkinson’s disease. The results of this study…
These 50 proposals represent more than a 50 percent increase in response by the science community, compared to the previous ESA Call in October 1999. The…
To protect us from disease our immune system employs macrophages, cells that roam our body in search of disease-causing bacteria. With the help of long…
To protect us from disease our immune system employs macrophages, cells that roam our body in search of disease-causing bacteria. With the help of long…
Online shopping is big business. Websites selling everything from mp3 players and music to books and budget flights continue to thrive. Now, an international…
Because of their similarity to patient tumors, these models are an exceptional tool for testing the efficacy of new drugs, adapting treatments to tumor…
Hope is threatened when people lose confidence that what they yearn for is possible, and this loss may result in a range of seemingly irrational behavior….
This project, an initiative of the Nereus consortium of academic libraries, will create a networked service providing open access to economics information,…
To test the ability of the combined therapy in treating cancerous tumors, senior author Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, and colleagues administered TRAIL, a tumor…
Microscopic Polystyrene Balls – now Jet-propelled! J. Howse, R. Jones, A. Ryan, T. Gough, R. Vafabakhsh, R. Golestanian Physical Review Letters (forthcoming,…
There is currently no evidence available of a superiority of rapid-acting insulin analogues over human insulin in the treatment of adult patients with diabetes…
The research reinforces previous results by German researchers, who found the same gene variant associated with the adult form of Crohn’s disease.Researchers…
While biologists have long known that the structure of adult animals follows a blueprint laid out in the early stages of embryonic development, classical…
In the search for better ways of treating children with brain cancer the study, carried out by the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group at The University of…
Cantilevers are miniature diving boards that measure 200 micrometers long and 40 micrometers wide, about half the width of a human hair. Two cantilevers are…
Although the addition of nutrients to soil helps to maximize crop production, fertilizer can leach nutrients, polluting the water supply. A recent study by…
A study of Medicare patients with osteoarthritis provides additional evidence that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin reduce the…
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