In 2004 Koichi Itagaki discovered an exploding star in the galaxy UGC4904 (78 million light years away in the Lynx constellation), which rapidly faded from…
Huntington's disease is caused by a mutation of a gene that the produces the Huntington protein. This protein influences a number of processes in the cells of…
RA is the most common of all chronic inflammatory joint diseases, affecting 0.5-1% of the population in the industrialised world. Its typical symptoms are…
Buried beneath a sulfurous cauldron in European seas lies a class of microorganisms known as “extremophiles,” so named because of the extreme environmental…
Scientists of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen identified a new source of adult somatic stem cells, the spermatogonial stem cells (SSC). These cells…
Invention
Scientists at the University of Münster, Germany, have isolated and characterized a novel substance class from Cocoa. CocoaHeal is capable of…