A Drexel University team of engineers, scientists and biologists have developed a carbon nanotube-based device for probing single living cells without damaging…
A new study published this week suggests that there may be roughly a thousand structurally-distinct protein-protein interfaces – and that their structures…
Ischemic stroke is the leading cause of disability and the third leading cause of death of older people in the United States, while TBI is the leading cause of…
But it’s not impossible, says Liviu M. Mirica, PhD, assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, to drive things…
Adding oregano to meat before grilling could reduce the formation of potentially cancer-causing compounds by up to 78 percent, University of Arizona…
Tuning the optical properties of nanoparticles is of interest for applications such as security technology, and for use in making chemical reactions more…
The virus that causes AIDS is chameleon-like in its replication. As HIV copies itself in humans, it constantly mutates into forms that can evade even the best…
For the first time in history, a change will be made to the atomic weights of some elements listed on the Periodic table of the chemical elements posted on…
The simulation of laser-based production processes has to cover a wide span of time and length scales, especially in new techniques from micro- and…
Blue specks rimming these dinoflagellates mark bacteria that are helping to produce dangerous toxins. A new kind of marker developed by chemists at the…
Civil and environmental engineering professor Mark Rood, graduate student John Atkinson and their team described their technique in the journal Carbon.Carbon…
Dubbed by the scientists “longdaysin,” for its ability to dramatically slow down the biological clock, the new compound and the application of their screening…
The study, led by the U.S. Geological Survey, included university and other federal agency scientists. The research broke new ground in the “tipping point”…
Dolphins along coast of Argentina could experience a significant loss of genetic diversity because some of the animals that accidently die when tangled in…
Initial research was focused on classifying the meteorite fragments that were collected two to five months after they were strewn across the desert and tracked…
The perirhinal cortex was thought to be involved, like the neighboring hippocampus, in “declarative” or conscious memories, but the new results show that the…