If you thought antifreeze was only something that was necessary to keep your car from freezing up in the winter, think again. Plants and animals living in…
Bruce Chassy, a professor emeritus of food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, believes that after thousands of…
The study followed a group of around 1000 children born in the New Zealand city of Dunedin in 1972-73. Every two years between the ages of 5 and 15, they were…
A German-American research team has succeeded in demonstrating that blood plasma has a much greater effect on how blood flows than was previously thought. The…
The finding has revealed an important mechanism controlling the growth of rapidly-dividing cells that may ultimately lead to the development of new treatments…
This was found out by researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) in a large-scale study. An extra five percent discount is, on average, no problem – as…
Vaccine based on adenoviral vectors to prevent infection with the respiratory syncytial virusFurther Information: PDF rubitec – Gesellschaft für Innovation und…
Many rural communities in the United States use aerated lagoon systems to treat their wastewater. The wastewater is pumped into at least one manmade aerated…
One University of Alberta researcher has discovered that language used on billboards can provoke an emotional response that affects our driving abilities. And…
PFCs are used in more than 200 industrial processes and consumer products including certain stain- and water-resistant fabrics, grease-proof paper food…
The results published by Diane Hanger and her colleagues in EMBO reports show that treatment of neurons with known biological signaling molecules increases the…
From providing living cells with energy, to nitrogen fixation, to the splitting of water molecules, the catalytic activities of metalloenzymes – proteins that…
Interestingly, the same can’t be said for female mice, the researchers report in the Journal of Cellular Physiology.“We know that inflammation in the gut can…
EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit organization that focuses on local conservation and global health issues, announced new research focused on the rapid…
Recently a Los Alamos National Laboratory quantum cryptography (QC) team successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for…
Researchers at Brown have figured out the microscopic chemical switch that allows Streptomyces bacteria to get to work, breaking lignin down into its…