A team of researchers from MIT and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has developed safe and effective methods to perform RNA interference, a therapy that holds great promise for treating a variety of diseases ...
Federal researchers say they've developed a human identification test that's faster and possibly cheaper than DNA testing.
South Korea's first astronaut says she will do her best to help her country develop its own space technology.
The dean of a Dominican Republic university has called for intensification in the training of postgraduates, to aid science development.
David Baltimore, Nobel laureate and last year's AAAS president, tells SciDev.Net what it takes to develop good scientific institutions.
... that is 50 times more energy efficient than today's models. It is also the first to be developed using nanotechnology. The new transistor is described in the latest issue of Electron Device Letters ...
... a new model to explain how signals between cells in the embryo control limb development. The study, which will be published in the May issue of the journal Nature and now available online, found that ...
A process to transmit medical images via cellular phones that has been developed by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher has the potential to provide sophisticated radiological diagnoses and ...
... is infected by the bacterium. Infants, whose digestive systems are not yet fully developed, also are susceptible to the disease if the bacterium gains a foothold in their intestinal tract. The Centers ...
... via a new pain score, called AnalgoscoreTM, and muscle relaxation via phonomyographyTM, all developed by ITAG. The system then administers the appropriate drugs using conventional infusion pumps, ...
... in the right way."
He said he thought the instrument could also help in developing countries.
"Out there, they do not have as many surgeons who can carry out arthroscopy and make decisions about ...
... of stimulating signals from surrounding normal tissues, which leads to dangerous overgrowth and development of advanced tumors.
Removal of PROX1 from cancer cells reverses their malignant behaviour ...
... – (V600E)B-Raf and Akt3 – communicate with one another in a mole, they cooperate leading to the development of melanoma," said Gavin Robertson, lead author and associate professor of pharmacology, ...
... trained cytologists and pathologists. Northeastern University professor Max Diem and his team have developed an automatic method based on vibrational microspectroscopy that identifies the presence of ...
A huge increase in counterfeit drugs in the U.S. is posing a serious threat to public safety, especially in developing countries, medical journal The Lancet says.
