The most common genetic cause of the brain diseases frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a mutation in the C9orf72 gene. Researchers...
Biological experiments are generating increasingly large and complex sets of data. This has made it difficult to reproduce experiments at other research laboratories in order...
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/John Altdorfer PITTSBURGH (February 14, 2017) ... Dysphagia, or swallowing disorders, affects nearly one in 25 adults, especially the elderly and...
Credit: Michigan Tech, Sarah Bird Interested in making an investment that promises a 100 percent return on your money, and then some? Buy a low-cost,...
Credit: Tour Group/Rice University A chunk of conductive graphene foam reinforced by carbon nanotubes can support more than 3,000 times its own weight and easily...
Credit: PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. - Two researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been elected to membership in the prestigious National...
Credit: Gareth J. Funning and Scott T. Marshall. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A new study by a team of researchers, including one from the University of...
Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS A new nanofiber-on-microfiber matrix could help produce more and better quality stem cells for disease treatment and regenerative therapies. A matrix...
Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS Daniel Packwood, Junior Associate Professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), is improving methods for constructing ..
ARLINGTON, Va., February 14, 2017 -- The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) recently published an updated clinical guideline that underscores the safety and effectiveness...
Credit: J.C. Gehrig, EMPA New research shows that a scanning-tunneling microscope (STM), used to study changes in the shape of a single molecule at the...
WORCESTER, MA - A father's nicotine use may have a significant impact on children's risk of some diseases. In a study published in the online...
Credit: Gil Costa A new study in mice shows that increasing serotonin, one of the major mediators of brain communication, affects motivation - but only...
Credit: Graphic: Sonja Lorenz The small protein ubiquitin regulates a plethora of physiological and pathophysiological processes in the human body. It lives up to its...
Women who participate in obstetric and gynaecology clinical trials experience improved health outcomes compared to those who are not involved in trials, according to research...
