The MSU-led research provides the first detailed blueprint of a multi-subunit “molecular machinery” that bacteria use to detect and destroy invading viruses.
People often feel a sensation of movement, called Mal de Debarquement, after they have finished boating, surfing or a sea voyage. The symptoms usually…
Patients treated with a drug widely prescribed for type 2 diabetes can live longer than people without the condition, a large-scale study involving over…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne and University College London have now unearthed the way in which a specific genetic…
After a long period of oxygen depletion and hydrogen sulfide formation in the deep water of the Central Baltic Sea (since 2003), saltwater being rich in oxygen…
The invention can be used for cutting high-strength materials, e. g. during disassembly of nuclear power plants, in under water or offshore applications. Benefits: Immediate start or stop the cutting operation possible; davings of abrasive suspension and time; efficiency improvement.
Sequencing the genomes of tumor cells has revealed thousands of mutations associated with cancer. One way to discover the role of these mutations is to breed a…
SABIX Rail Data – Cables for signal-transmission in the Railway Technology
C. difficile is an opportunistic pathogen found in the intestines of approximately 3% of healthy adults and 40% of infants. The bacterium causes a spectrum of…
Floods have caused such tremendous devastation which contributes to excessive losses and causes untold suffering to millions of people affected by it. Even…
Brain tumors fly under the radar of the body's defense forces by coating their cells with extra amounts of a specific protein, new research shows.
Published Wednesday in the journal Climate Dynamics, Professor James Elsner writes that though tornadoes are forming fewer days per year, they are forming at a…
These insecticides are widely used in agriculture, and the authors conclude that fipronil and imidacloprid are inhibitors of mitochondrial bioenergetics,…
KfW IPEX-Bank is using a loan worth EUR 51m to finance the export of special equipment to South America for the environmentally friendly production of particle…
Say what you will about the parasitic lifestyle, but in the evolution of life on Earth, it's a winner.
A supernova typically obliterates the exploding white dwarf, or dying star. On this occasion, scientists believe this faint supernova may have left behind a…
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