Lights, Camera, Ka-Boom!Cheap, lightweight cameras could help protect mass transit, but would they survive a big costly blast?That was the question on the…
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found that this worm has evolved a surprisingly optimistic genetic strategy to cope with…
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine have identified a key to eye development — a…
Indiana University researchers found promising results in an exploratory study involving yoga practice by older adults who expressed a fear of falling. After a…
More than 150 years after a small Eurasian tree named tamarisk or saltcedar started taking over river banks throughout the U.S. Southwest, saltcedar leaf…
The alga — a simple one-celled algae called Cyanidioschyzon — thrives in extremely toxic conditions and chemically modifies arsenic that occurs naturally…
The discovery of the single top confirms important parameters of particle physics, including the total number of quarks, and has significance for the ongoing…
The study, in the journal Structure, reveals that after eons of gradual evolution, proteins suddenly experienced a “big bang” of innovation. The active regions…
The concentration of the gas rose at a rate of 4 to 6 percent per year between 1978 and 2007, to a global atmospheric abundance by the end of 2007 of about 1.5…
Gray or white hair develops with advancing age in an entirely natural aging process which results in the generation of less and less color pigments. Researchers of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany und the University of Bradford in Great Britain have now unlocked the secret of hair turning white or gray in old age. According to them, free oxygen radicals are significantly involved in the loss of hair color. “The originator of the entire process is hydrogen peroxide, which we also know as a bleaching agent,” explains Professor Heinz Decker of the Institute of Biophysics at Mainz University….
A family of genes known as the “FET” genes has been investigated in the work presented in the thesis. This family contains three genes that are found in…
Thesignallingcascadeofcalcineurin(CnA)andthenuclearfactorofactivatedTcells(NF-ATc)isacrucialtransducerofcellularfunction.NF-ATcisanubiquitoustranscriptionfactorbuthasparticularrelevanceincytokineexpressionandthedevelopmentofpathologicmyocardialhypertrphy….
Escherichia coli is a commonly used indicator organism for detecting the presence of fecal contamination in drinking water supplies.The importance of E. coli…
New England lobstermen have gone high tech by adding low-cost instruments to their lobster pots that record bottom temperature and provide data that could help…
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) burden the healthcare system with more than $2 billion in treatment costs each year and are a common problem in patients with a…
New research published in the international journal Chest, by Neil Eves, PhD, finds that people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who breathed…
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