12-05-27 Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants know when to flower. Determining the proper time to flower, important if a plant is to reproduce successfully, involves a sequence of molecular even...

12-05-23 Biomedical engineers at UC Davis have developed a microfluidic（微流体） chip to test for latent（潜在的） tuberculosis. They hope the test will be cheaper, faster and more reliable than current testing for the disease. Our assay is cheaper, reusabl...

12-05-23 For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogramming them to transform into healthy, new heart muscle cells that are capable of integrating with existing heart tissue. The research, which is...

12-05-21 A collaboration between Lehigh University physicists and University of Miami biologists addresses an important fundamental question in basic cell biology: How do living cells figure out when and where to grow? The study, Oscillatory Dynamics of Cdc4...

12-05-16 Scientists at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) have discovered that mice that lack a gene called Snf2l have brains that are 35 per cent larger than normal. The research, led by Dr. David Picketts a...

12-05-08 A chemical found in curry is to be tested for its ability to kill bowel cancer tumours in patients. 咖喱中的一种化学物质将被用于证实其是否有杀死肠癌细胞的能力。 Curcumin（姜黄色素） , which is found in the spice turmeric, has been linked to a range...

12-05-07 Fibroid（子宫肌瘤） uterine tumors affect an estimated 15 million women in the United States, causing irregular bleeding, anemia（贫血） , pain and infertility. Despite the high prevalence of the tumors, which occur in 60 percent of women by age 45,...

12-04-13 The theory that pigeons' famous skill at navigation is down to iron-rich nerve cells in their beaks has been disproven by a new study published in Nature. The study shows that iron-rich cells in the pigeon beak are in fact specialized white blood ce...

12-04-05 A compound found in red wine, grapes and other fruits, and similar in structure to resveratrol（白藜芦醇） , is able to block cellular processes that allow fat cells to develop, opening a door to a potential method to control obesity, according to a...

12-03-29 A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed at UCSF called ribosome（核糖体） profilin...