The Texas A&M researchers' work is published in the renowned journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.The attackers are called phages, or bacteriophages, meaning eaters of bacteria....
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Life Sciences |A team of scientists led by the University of Adelaide has reconstructed a history of marine barriers, mountain building and glacial cycles in New Zealand over millions of years, using the first compl...
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Life Sciences |The vehicle is part of a new research project, ChargeCar, headed by Illah Nourbakhsh, associate professor of robotics. The project is exploring how electric vehicles can be customized to cost-effectiv...
Automotive Engineering |In the largest, most comprehensive genetic analysis of childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an international research team has identified five new gene regions, including one involved in ...
Studies and Analyses |Takao IwawakiInitiative Research ScientistIwawaki Initiative Research UnitRIKEN Advanced Science InstituteThe endoplasmic reticulum is a cell organelle that acts as a processing fa...
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Life Sciences |An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is taking the first step in developing a treatment for a rare genetic disorder called fibr...
Studies and Analyses |The relationship between circadian and metabolic systems the researchers describe could have important implications for understanding the higher incidence of cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabet...
Life Sciences |When Charles Darwin visited the Falkland Islands during the voyage of the Beagle in 1835, he saw a wolf-like species, wrote about it in his diaries and correctly commented that it was being hunted in ...
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