Many proteins are adorned with carbohydrate chains called glycans that can dramatically alter their stability, localization or function. These diverse sugars…
Lead pipes once used routinely in municipal water distribution systems are a well-recognized source of dangerous lead contamination, but new research from…
Variations in genes that regulate immune responses in a region of chromosome 6 have long been linked with susceptibility for many infectious and chronic…
TheTAXA-FIX invention relates to a process for separating and purifying taxanes using liquid-liquid partition chromatography (e.g. FCPC). In this case the…
Conventional processes for generating biogas require solid or liquid biomass input. This novel process uses gaseous substrates and thereby enhances versatile…
In addition to having a hot wide strip mill, the ThyssenKrupp Steel plant in Bruckhausen also operates a casting-rolling mill. There, the liquid steel is first…
The finding, published online Dec. 14th in the International Wound Journal, represents an unappreciated link that could lead to important new insights in wound…
Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The New York Botanical Garden, and New York University have created the…
Understanding the evolution of such fast muscles has been difficult for researchers because slow movement of a swimbladder does not generate sound. In a study…
Endoscopes — small cameras or optic fibres that are usually attached to flexible tubing designed to investigate the interior of the body — can be dangerously…
Researchers with the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute led the study…
A team of scientists from Oregon has collected microbes from ice within a lava tube in the Cascade Mountains and found that they thrive in cold, Mars-like…
Over the past four decades, sugar maple abundance has declined in some regions of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, due largely to…
Today, new international research led by Indiana University shows that as populations and species diversify, the exact shape and fit of genitalia steals the…
The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) has taken a proactive role in advancing discussions with the international lung cancer…
The hereditary cancer syndrome is caused by an inherited mutation in a gene called BAP1, researchers say. The findings suggest that BAP1 mutations cause the…