Research on the fungus that ranks as one cause of dandruff - the embarrassing nuisance that, by some accounts, afflicts half of humanity - is pointing scientists toward a much-needed new treatment for the condition's flaking and itching. The advance is the topic of a report in ACS' Journal of...
What characterizes many people with depression, schizophrenia and some other mental illnesses is anhedonia: an inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences. Exactly why this happens is unclear. But new research led by neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina at...
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified an abnormal amount a protein called Prostaglandin D2 in the bald scalp of men with male pattern baldness, a discovery that may lead directly to new treatments for the most common cause of hair loss...
Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that removing a matched set of molecules that typically help to regulate the brain's capacity for forming and eliminating connections between nerve cells could substantially aid recovery from stroke even days after the event...
Drugs targeting an enzyme involved in inflammation might offer a new avenue for treating certain lung cancers, according to a new study by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The scientists discovered that blocking the activity of the enzyme IKK2, which helps activate the...
fires his rifle 4 times at the tar? The probability that Mr. Wesson, a rifleman, will hit a target is 0.80. He fires his rifle 4 times at the target. Assuming a binomial distribution, what is the probability that he hits the target exactly 2 times?
Answer
0.1536
0.2596
0.4096...
fires his rifle 4 times at the tar? The probability that Mr. Wesson, a rifleman, will hit a target is 0.80. He fires his rifle 4 times at the target. Assuming a binomial distribution, what is the probability that he hits the target exactly 2 times?
Answer
0.1536
0.2596
0.4096...
The histamine releasing factor (HRF) molecule has been identified by researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, as a potential target for developing novel therapies for numerous allergic reactions, including asthma. The study is published online in the Journal of Clinical...
A new type of "triggered imaging" technology enables University of Alabama at Birmingham physicians to better target tumors during radiosurgery and lessens the risk of injury to surrounding lung tissue. Radiosurgery is a focused, highly targeted, high dose of radiation treatment typically taking...
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have identified hepcidin, a hormone that regulates iron levels in the body, as a potential target for treating atherosclerosis. Suppressing hepcidin is a way to reduce the iron levels inside the white blood cells found in arterial plaques...
A protein in the nucleus of breast cancer cells that plays a role in fueling the growth of aggressive tumors may be a good target for new drugs, reports a research team at the Duke Cancer Institute. The finding, published in the Oct. 18, 2011, print issue of the journal Cancer Cell, presents a...
Wouldn't it be lèse majesté, to arrest an Australian resident and film-maker ?
Lese-majesty /?li:z 'mæd??sti/[1] (French: lèse majesté [l?z ma??ste]; Law French, from the Latin laesa maiestas, "injured majesty"; in English, also lese majesty or leze majesty) is the crime of violating majesty...
A possible new target for breast cancer therapy comes from the discovery that the Tyk2 protein helps suppress the growth and metastasis of breast tumors, as reported in Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The article is available...
Proteins are the molecular machines of the cell. They transport materials, cleave products or transmit signals- and for a long time, they have been a main focus of attention in molecular biology research. In the last two decades, however, another class of critically important molecules has...
For the first time, USC scientists have mapped out a neuroreceptor. This scientific breakthrough promises to revolutionize the engineering of drugs used to treat ailments such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. The team produced the world's first high-resolution images of the α7 (Alpha...
An abnormality discovered by U-M researchers in mice with Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 3 could represent a target for therapy. In a paper published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, U-M researchers found that a particular dysfunction in neurons occurs well before the death of neurons...
In a new study published in the August 16th issue of Developmental Cell, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center identified a molecular mechanism that guarantees that new blood vessels form in the right place and with the proper abundance. "We have known for a long time that blood vessels...