Severe trauma to the head and spine resulting from all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accidents are increasing dramatically according to research released today from…
Improving the quality of local water increases the resistance of coral reefs to global climate change, according to a study published in June in Marine Ecology…
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have created the…
In this burgeoning field of science, light waves can be controlled at all lengths of scale through the unique structuring of metamaterials, composites…
The findings, published online and in the July 5, 2010, issue of The Journal of Experimental Medicine, support the emerging concept of ‘bridge immunity,' which…
Rotaxanes, one family of such molecules, are tiny, mechanically interlocked structures that consist of a dumbell-shaped molecule whose rod section is encircled…
A new computer data compression technique called Genomic SQueeZ (G-SQZ), developed by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), will allow genetic…
Don't put down the red wine and vitamins just yet, but if you're taking antioxidants because you hope to live longer, consider this: a new study published in…
But Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicists are using an ultra-fast laser-based technique they dubbed “nanoshocks” for something entirely different….
A team of researchers from the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the University of Montreal have made significant progress in the…
But a team of researchers has found that the opposite is the case on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.Using 15 years of long-term monitoring data collected from…
New research funded by the National Institutes of Health and published online in advance of print in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology reveals the unusual…
Nicknamed the “longevity” protein because of its apparent role in mediating the effects of dietary restriction on life span, SIRT1 has been studied as a…
The increase in energy expenditure, called a thermogenic response, burns calories even in the absence of exercise, so understanding how it is regulated could…
This environment is not as peaceful as it looks. Ultraviolet radiation and violent stellar winds have blown out an enormous cavity in the gas and dust…
Genetic Alliance will hold its 2010 Annual Conference, Advancing Novel Partnerships, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center July 15th-18th.
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