The discovery, just reported online in the professional journal Advanced Materials, outlines the creation for the first time of a high-performance…
For Immediate Release – A team from The Scripps Research Institute has revealed the first-ever pictures of the formation of cells' “protein factories.” In…
When the space shuttle Discovery lifts off on its final flight Nov. 2, its six astronauts will be joined by 16 rodent passengers on a historic mission of their…
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have taken a less-is-more approach to designing effective drug treatments that are precisely tailored to disease-causing pathogens,…
The ocean surface is 30 percent more acidic today than it was in 1800, much of that increase occurring in the last 50 years – a rising trend that could both…
Researchers could use this novel “on-off switch” to control cell growth or death, grow new tissue or deliver doses of medication directly to diseased cells,…
But these gateways — proteins that span the cell membrane and connect the world outside the cell to its vital inner workings – remain, for the most part,…
The UK team, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Wellcome Trust, is based at Birkbeck College where they used…
The aftermath of the financial crisis has triggered a debate on the future of governance and the relation between states, markets and civil societies, both…
A team led by planetary geologists at Brown University has discovered mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone less than 3.5 billion years ago that…
The world's largest protected areas encompass vast amounts of wilderness but do not extensively overlap the highest priority areas for conservation or include…
A new study from Rhode Island Hospital found that 33 individuals were responsible for 305 cases of medical intervention to remove foreign bodies that were…
Primary-care clinicians know teen depression is common, but they've lacked a reliable screening test for it. Now researchers at the University of Washington…
A little self-awareness can help people struggling in the world of relationships, says Jeffrey Hall, assistant professor of communication studies at the…
Led by Scott H. Sicherer, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, researchers at five U.S. study sites…
To facilitate access to and analysis of radiation dose information, researchers at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA,…