The commercial opportunity is to develop antagonists of Rspo2 and/or Rspo3 for the treatment of Sdc(Syndecan)-associated disorders and for Sdc antagonists in…
Seedless watermelons are more popular than seeded watermelons, making them a more profitable crop for farmers. But the flowers of seedless watermelon plants…
As the implementation of green roofs increase, a University of Cincinnati pilot study examined which plants best thrive on the region’s roofs during the dry,…
The research was led by graduate student Jacob Prosser and assistant professor Daeyeon Lee, both of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in…
Diers and Hudson, with researchers at Wisconsin and the University of Nebraska, have been studying an area on chromosome 18 called Rhg1 (Resistance to H….
Research released today helps reveal how human and primate brains process and interpret facial expressions, and the role of facial mimicry in everything from…
To all intents and purposes, nothing stands in the way of titanium in terms of becoming a first-choice industrial material. It is a practically unlimited…
The medical researcher Jacques Fellay is studying the human genome in search of genetic variations that influence how the body reacts to a virus and to the…
A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has found a way to generate this kind of “structural color” that has the added benefit of another trait…
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Rafael in the…
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed directly above weakening Typhoon Prapiroon in the western Pacific Ocean on October 12, 2012 at…
“We examined the evolution of avian retroviruses on the basis of their fossil remnants in the three avian genomes that have been completely sequenced,” write…
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of South Florida; Duke University; Johns Hopkins University; the Brazilian National…
This is one of the conclusions of a study of Argentinian villagers in the Andes, where the water contains high levels of arsenic. A gene variant that produces…
Their discoveries: The population is divided into several sub-populations which do not stem from the destruction of the rainforest, but are of a geographic…
“Our results show that plaques may be a more important factor in determining which people are at greater risk for cognitive impairment or other memory diseases…