For decades, geologists have looked at these water droplets — called fluid inclusions — and wondered whether microbes could be extracted from them. Fluid…
Boston University researchers have developed a simple diagnostic tool that can quickly identify dangerous viruses like Ebola and Marburg. The biosensor, which…
“Processors and consumers will benefit from the speed and sensitivity of the new test's results,” said Azlin Mustapha, associate professor of food science in…
Both the rate and direction of axon growth in the spinal cord can be controlled, according to new research by USC College's Samantha Butler and her…
For biological and biomedical research, science depends on animal experiments. The understanding of complex processes in the body such as, for example, the…
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, have…
A new study by University of California, Riverside scientists of what is believed to be the world’s only hybrid electric tugboat found that the vessel is…
A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) finds that high body mass index (BMI) in developing countries remains primarily a problem of the…
A new Mayo Clinic study (http://newsblog.mayoclinic.org/2008/12/03/brain-tumors-best-treatments-for-long-term-survival/) found that children with low-grade…
New findings by civil engineering researchers in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering shows that treating municipal wastewater…
More and more people have become aware of the dangers of excessive fructose in diet. A new review on fructose in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the…
Elderly adults can improve their vision with perceptual training, according to a study from the University of California, Riverside and Boston University that…
Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have determined why that happens. Their research shows that HIV protease inhibitors…
Natalia Dudareva, a distinguished professor of horticulture, and Hiroshi Maeda, a postdoctoral researcher in Dudareva's laboratory, determined that the gene is…
The researchers were inspired by observing that, for lower-class people, success depends more on how much they can rely on other individuals. For example, if…
The active agent ziconotide, the synthetic toxin of the cone snail (Conus magus), was acclaimed a safe alternative to morphine when it was introduced six years…
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