Crystals that don’t experience mechanical stress during growth, will be of superior quality. Researchers are…
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Re-emergence of syphilis traced to pandemic strain cluster
Over the last few decades, an age-old infectious disease has been re-emerging globally: syphilis. Using…
Why the flounder is flat
Scientists have long been puzzled by the flounder’s asymmetrical physiology. The mechanism that triggers the…
Scottish fossils tell story of first life on land
Fossils of possibly the earliest backboned four-legged animals to walk have been found in Scotland.
Drug/catheter combination for labor induction could save women 2.4 million hours of labor annually, study shows
Labor induction is one of the most common medical procedures in the world, with nearly…
Robot aircraft take to British skies
Robot aircraft are to be tested in UK airspace to help refine systems that control…
‘Shock and kill’ strategy for curing HIV may endanger patients’ brains
Combination drug treatments have become successful at long-term control of HIV infection, but the goal…
Leukemia drug combo is encouraging in early phase I clinical trial
In a Phase I study, 8 out of 12 patients with relapsed and/or chemotherapy refractory…
Confronting the psychological demands on endurance athletes
What are the psychological demands commonly faced by endurance athletes? New research has identified psychological…
Protein synthesis: Ribosome recycling as a drug target
Researchers have elucidated a mechanism that recycles bacterial ribosomes stalled on messenger RNAs that lack…