Over the past decades, researchers seeking to understand molecular mechanisms underlying various diseases, notably cancer, have taken advantage of DNA…
May 6, 2011
NEW YORK -- Green roofs like the one atop a Con Edison building in Long Island City, Queens can be a cost-effective way to keep water from running into sewer systems and causing overflows, Columbia University researchers have found.
May 6, 2011
College Park, Md. (May 6, 2011) -- A bold new design for thin film solar cells that requires significantly less silicon -- and may boost their efficiency -- is…
May 6, 2011
A team of physicists from the United States and Russia announced today* that it has developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic clocks.
May 6, 2011
LA JOLLA, CA -- May 6, 2011 -- Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have found a temperature-sensing protein within immune cells that, when tripped, allows calcium to pour in and activate an immune response.
May 6, 2011
Experts from medical and patient communities call on national policymakers in the Asia-Pacific region to take urgent action against preventable strokes that…
May 6, 2011
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- It's not quite Christmas, but the DNA sequence of a small plant that resembles the seasonal conifers is providing biofuels researchers…
May 6, 2011
WASHINGTON -- A draft plan to conserve habitat for endangered and threatened fishes in the California Bay-Delta while continuing to divert water for…
May 5, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas -- Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the…
May 5, 2011
A Swedish research team partly consisting of researchers from Uppsala University followed a group of prostate cancer patients in the Nordic region for 15 years.
May 5, 2011
French researchers have reported the strongest proof yet that evidence of 'circulating tumor cells' found in samples of a patient's blood is strongly linked to poor outcomes such as a short time to disease progression.
May 5, 2011
German researchers have identified an unexpected molecular marker that predicts how sensitive hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancers are to chemotherapy.
May 5, 2011
A new biosensor which uses antibody-based technology has been shown to detect marine pollutants such as oil cheaper and faster than current technology.
May 5, 2011
Latinas who endure violence at the hands of a partner during or within a year of pregnancy are five times more likely to suffer postpartum depression than…
May 5, 2011
