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Cold Plasma Successful Against Brain Cancer Cells, Study Suggests
May 22, 2013 For the first time, physicists, biologists and physicians demonstrated the synergistic effect of cold atmospheric plasma - a partly ionized gas - and chemo therapy on aggressive brain tumor cells. ... > full story -
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How Healthy Are You for Your Age?
May 22, 2013 A new technique measures the health of human genetic material in relation to a patient's age. This could lead to the use of a "genetic thermometer" to assess a patient's health in relation to other ... > full story -
Genetic Marker Associated With Risk for Pulmonary Fibrosis
May 22, 2013 New research finds that a genetic risk factor for pulmonary fibrosis, an uncommon but deadly lung disease, may be effective in identifying individuals at risk for this ... > full story -
Drought Makes Borneo's Trees Flower at the Same Time
May 22, 2013 Tropical plants flower at supra-annual irregular intervals. In addition, mass flowering is typical for the tropical forests in Borneo and elsewhere, where hundreds of different plant timber species ... > full story -
DNA Damage: The Dark Side of Respiration
May 22, 2013 Adventitious changes in cellular DNA can endanger the whole organism, as they may lead to life-threatening illnesses like cancer. Researchers now report how byproducts of respiration cause mispairing ... > full story -
Unique Method Creates Correct Mirror Image of Molecule
May 22, 2013 Many molecules have a right and a left form, just like shoes. In pharmaceuticals, it is important that the correct form of the molecule is used. Researchers have been able to produce the one mirror ... > full story -
Mechanism Discovered Which Aids Legionella to Camouflage Itself in the Organism
May 22, 2013 The feared Legionella pneumophilabacteria is responsible for legionellosis, an infectious disease that can lead to pneumonia. In order to infect us, this pathogen has developed a complex method ... > full story -
Important Genetic Factors That Could Influence Survival in Sepsis Patients
May 22, 2013 Scientists have made an important first step in establishing new therapeutic options targeting specific genetic areas that influence the occurrence and severity of sepsis – a life-threatening, ... > full story -
Changing Cancer's Environment to Halt Its Spread
May 21, 2013 By studying the roles two proteins, thrombospondin-1 and prosaposin, play in discouraging cancer metastasis, scientists have identified a five-amino acid fragment of prosaposin that significantly ... > full story -
Minus Environment, Patterns Still Emerge: Computational Study Tracks E. Coli Cells' Regulatory Mechanisms
May 21, 2013 Random mutations and genetic drift, rather than design principles, may explain the emergence of regulatory network properties in E. ... > full story
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