Location: Washington DC, United States
Computing and communicating through the Web makes it virtually impossible to
leave the past behind. College Facebook posts or pictures can resurface during a
job interview; a lost or stolen laptop can expose personal photos or messages;
or a...
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Location: Marseilles, United States
The life of a cell is not governed only by the biochemistry and genetics. The mechanics also say. A team of physicists from the Institute Fresnel1 in Marseilles, and biologists from the Institute of Developmental Biology of
Marseille-Luminy...
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Location: Minnesota, United States
Genetically engineering plants is a time-intensive process. Methods currently
used to deliver genetic changes are imprecise, so it's often necessary to
generate thousands of plants to find one that happens to have the desired
alteration....
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
A newly published dissertation by Linda Ampel from the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University in Sweden examined how rapid climate changes during the most recent ice age affected ecosystems in an
area...
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Location: Los Angeles, United States
Researchers-Aydogan Ozcan,
Abstracts- In many Third World and developing countries, the distance between
people in need of health care and the facilities capable of providing it
constitutes a major obstacle to...
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Location: Berlin, Russian Federation
An interdisciplinary research team at the Free University of Berlin (FUB) and
the Institute for Studies on bees (Länderinstitut für Bienenkunde) Hohen
Neuendorf discovered the mechanism of infection of a deadly disease among
bees,...
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Location: Princeton University, United States
Beyond its role as the elixir of all life, water is a very unusual substance:
Scientists have long marveled over counter-intuitive properties that set water
apart from other solids and liquids commonly found in nature.
The simple fact...
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
University of Minnesota
researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory.
By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the
University of Minnesota...
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Location: University of Bath, United Kingdom
With public concern over online fraud, new research, funded by the Economic
and Social Research Council, has revealed that internet users will reveal
more personal information...
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Location: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, United States
The new analyses revealed today from the STEP HIV vaccine clinical trial are
both disappointing and puzzling. At this time, the data offer no clear
explanations as to why the vaccine showed no measurable efficacy or why among
individuals...
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Location: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
The emergence of drug resistant forms of HIV often underlies the failure of current antiretroviral therapies for HIV infection. Specific mutations in the HIV genome confer resistance to individual drugs. sexual reproduction, a process similar...
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Location: University of Texas Health Science Center, United States
The amount of virus in the blood of an HIV-infected
person—has long been viewed as the chief indicator of how quickly someone
infected with HIV infection progresses to...
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Location: NeurogesX, Inc., San Carlos Business Park, 981F Industrial Road, San Carlos, CA 94070-4117, United States
NeurogesX, Inc. (Nasdaq: NGSX), a
biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel pain management therapies,
today announced positive top-line results from its second pivotal study of
NGX-4010, the Company's dermal patch containing the...
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Location: Hutchison Hall 306, Rochester, NY 146273, United States
Some insects and roundworms pick up DNA from bacteria living within their
cells, new research shows.
The DNA transfer occurs in the animals' egg cells, so the genetic
modification passes between generations. The mechanism therefore...
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Location: 3330 Walnut Street, Levine Hall, GRW 470 , Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
A team from the University of Pennsylvania has found the answer is 'yes,' if the
students design and build the robot themselves.
In a paper presented last week at the American
Society of Mechanical...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, United States
It’s not every day an engineering professor gets to rub elbows with top
military brass, watch from a few meters away as three F-15 fighter jets refuel
in mid air, and stroll through a “petting zoo” of Cold War era Soviet machines
of war. ...
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Location: 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St, 40th Fl, New York, NY 10007-2157, United States
China has experienced tremendous growth within the past decade. Its
economic boom and growing domestic market is now paralleled by its...
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Location: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Dr Paul Ginsparg, one of the key instigators of the world's first free-access
electronic archive for
physics research,
will join leading players from the
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