When the first warm rays of springtime sunshine trigger a burst of new plant growth, it's almost as if someone flicked a switch to turn on the greenery and…
A compound found in sunless tanning spray may help to heal wounds following surgery, according to new results published by plastic surgeons from…
In its latest Perspectives in General Physiology series, the Journal of General Physiology (JGP) offers an in-depth look at several of these methods and the…
The findings, which appear online Monday ahead of print in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, open the door to providing a more…
“There's a whole world beyond SNPs — single nucleotide polymorphisms — and we've stepped into that world,” says Brian Teague, a doctoral student in genetics at…
Tonsillectomy is among the oldest and most commonly performed procedures in the pediatric population. Approximately 530,000 outpatient pediatric…
Making food choices based on television advertising results in a very imbalanced diet according to a new study comparing the nutritional content of food…
Galactosemia is a metabolic disease resulting from an inherited defect that prevents the proper metabolism of galactose, a sugar commonly found in dairy products, like milk. Exposure of affected people to galactose, can damage most of their organ systems and can be fatal. The ability to study the disease is limited by a lack of animal models. New information suggests that similarities between humans and flies may provide scientists with useful clues. The inability to breakdown simple sugars in common…
Although the tropics appear to the casual observer to be busily buzzing and blooming with life's rich variety when compared with temperate and polar regions—a…
Now, a University of Florida geologist may have helped crack that mystery.In a paper appearing June 1 in the June edition of the journal Geology, Peter Adams,…
Red blood cells, the delivery men that take oxygen to cells all around the body, have short lives. To keep enough of them in circulation, the human body…
The development of nanomedicine is continuing with increasing pace. Nearly on a day-to-day basis new groundbreaking results from basic research are reported….
Scientists at the University of Göttingen developed a novel timber protecting composition based on fatty acids and paraffin derivatives for protecting Wood…
The experts included meteorologists, ground-based, air-borne and Earth-observation specialists and modellers. While scientists and researchers shared…
A team of U.S. and Chinese physicists are zeroing in on critical effects at the heart of the latest high-temperature superconductors — but they're using other…
Nihal Altan-Bonnet, assistant professor of cell biology, Rutgers University in Newark, and her research team have made a significant new discovery about RNA…
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