Experiments with two species of young damselfish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have shown for the first time that some reef fish are either consistently…
Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have determined precisely how the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) works at the molecular level to help plants…
Amyloids are the primary culprits in fatal brain disorders such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's diseases. Their study, published in the current…
HHMI investigator Huda Y. Zoghbi and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine prevented medulloblastoma from developing in mice by shutting down production of…
Title: “Shedding Light on Developing Brain”Date and Time: Saturday, 30th January, 2010; 10:00 – 16:40Venue: G-SEC Lab, 6th Floor, East Building, Mita Campus,…
But directly observing how water solvents participate in critical pH-dependent processes, such as protein assembly, is no easy matter. Scientists need a…
Abcisic acid (ABA) has an awful lot on its plate. This plant hormone handles a staggeringly diverse array of jobs, from controlling seed germination to…
Three markets are open on the Congressional control market. In two of them, traders can buy and sell contracts that will predict whether the Democrats will…
BirdsEye, a new application for the iPhone and the iPod touch, is now available. Using content from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Academy of Natural…
Although a theory developed years ago describes what the explosion of such an enormous star should look like, no one had actually observed one – until now. An…
The forecasting model developed by Danijel Schorlemmer, of the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, aims to predict the rough size and location of future…
But the Jeff Brinker research group has determined that the very first stage of staph infection, when bacteria switch from a harmless to a virulent form,…
But the decline of species and their habitats may not just make the world boring. New research now suggests it may also put you at greater risk for catching…
“We completely take cell phones for granted,” said Sheila Hemami, Cornell professor of electrical and computer engineering, who leads the research with Eve…
The scientists, led by Wen-Biao Gan, PhD, associate professor of physiology and neuroscience at NYU School of Medicine, discovered that a delicate balancing…
The discovery represents a further step in the ever-expanding field of understanding the ways in which stem cells develop into specific cells, a necessary…
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