Researchers have discovered a new protein that protects against viral infections such as influenza.
Month: January 2013
New insights into managing our water resources
Understanding how our water catchments react to natural disturbances, may offer hydrologists greater insight into…
Epigenetic control of cardiogenesis
Scientists have now been able to demonstrate that non-coding RNA is essential for normal embryonic…
New options for transparent contact electrodes
Found in flat screens, solar modules, or in new organic light-emitting diode (LED) displays, transparent…
Real angry birds ‘flip the bird’ before a fight: Biologists use robots to study attacks of male swamp sparrows
Male sparrows are capable of fighting to the death. But a new study shows that…
Link found between insulin sensitivity, cells’ powerhouses: Mice with mitochondrial mutation live longer, have less fat
Mice with decreased activity of a protein complex involved in mitochondrial function exhibit reduced body…
Diabetes drug could hold promise for lung cancer patients
Ever since discovering a decade ago that a gene altered in lung cancer regulated an…
Taking the stairs, raking leaves may have same health benefits as a trip to the gym
New research suggests the health benefits of small amounts of activity – even as small…
Could the timing of when you eat, be just as important as what you eat?
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have found that it’s not simply what you eat,…
Doctor-patient relationship: Physicians’ brain scans indicate doctors can feel their patients’ pain — and their relief
In a novel investigation in which physicians underwent brain scans while they believed they were…