The extent to which non-host-associated bacterial communities exhibit small-scale biogeographic patterns in their distribution remains unclear. Our investigation of biogeography in bacterial community ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

Blood test tubes with multi-colored lids standing on medical documents. Do serum sclerostin levels play a role in COPD? Researchers analyzed relationships between blood SOST and body composition, bone ...

Glycans are essential to virtually every biological process in the body. These complex structures—composed of interlocking sugar molecules—adorn the surfaces of cells in fuzzy profusion. Glycans are a ...

The gut microbiota is the complex and dynamic community of bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses that enter into a ...

Blood is a connective tissue that helps in the transportation of substances, protects against diseases and regulates the temperature of the body. Do you know why the colour of blood is red? It is red ...

(Nanowerk News) The electronic bandgap is an intrinsic property of semiconductors that to a large extent determines their optical properties, such as their emission color. Having the ability to adjust ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Jun., 2009), pp. 1360-1404 (45 pages) We study the problem of nonparametric estimation of a multivariate function $g ...