TAMPA, Fla. (Jan. 11, 2017) - Graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) is the leading cause of non-relapse associated death in patients who receive stem cell transplants. In a...
Credit: Alvin Kuk, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Bacterial cells have an added layer of protection, called the cell wall, that animal cells don't. Assembling...
What if you could find another way to fight cancer by approaching it from an engineering perspective, acting on the cellular process by which tissues...
Credit: UIC The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy has received a five-year, $1.25 million federal grant to continue its research into how...
Credit: Lance Lian, Penn State A process using human stem cells can generate the cells that cover the external surface of a human heart --...
Credit: R. Hollinger and A. Beardall FORT COLLINS, COLORADO - The energy density contained in the center of a star is higher than we can...
Research led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has discovered a new biological target for drugs to reduce the spread of tumours in cancer patients....
Credit: Teufel/NIST Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have cooled a mechanical object to a temperature lower than previously thought possible,...
Credit: Kanté group, UC San Diego Researchers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated the world's first laser based on an unconventional wave...
Credit: Artist: Danielle Dufault. © Royal Ontario Museum TORONTO, ON (Canada) - One branch on the tree of life is a bit more crowded today....
About 40% of natural grasslands worldwide have potential to support increased livestock grazing, according to a new study published in the journal Global Change Biology....
Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab Defects and jagged surfaces at the edges of nanosized platinum and gold particles are key hot spots for chemical reactivity, a...
Credit: (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Using one of the world's brightest light sources to peer inside some of the world's smallest particles, scientists have confirmed...
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS, January 11, 2017 ? More than a decade after the HPV vaccine was deemed both safe and effective by the FDA...
Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce California which has long been suffering through a strong, multi-year drought, is finally beginning to see some much needed relief...
