When it comes to intellectual curiosity and creativity, a market economy in which inventors can buy and sell shares of the key components of their discoveries…
Engineers at Duke University have found that buckyballs hinder the ability of bacteria and other microorganisms to accumulate on the membranes used to filter…
This connection is also confirmed in a new study from Stockholm University in Sweden and the University of Oxford. But the study also reveals something that…
Rapid and extensive climate changes have taken place on several occasions in the past. For example, the latest ice age (lasting from about 115,000 to 11,500…
Understanding the function of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that provide life-long all components of our immune system requires research under physiological…
Health professionals send genes and healthy cells on their way through the bloodstream so that they can, for example, repair tissue damage to arteries. But do…
Using new computer modelling programs Wouter Schellart and the team reconstructed the prehistoric cataclysm that took place when a tectonic plate between…
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have done to laboratory zebrafish exactly what many people still do to themselves –…
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a poorly understood condition that, in the two years since its discovery, has spread to at least seven northeastern states and…
“For years the Amazon forest has been helping to slow down climate change. But relying on this subsidy from nature is extremely dangerous”, said Professor…
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Arizona are using a common agricultural insect pest to understand how ecological and…
As synthetic biologists cram more and more genes into microbes to make genetically engineered organisms produce ever more complex drugs and chemicals, two…
By this measure, T cells, or white blood cells, from patients with the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis are worn out and prematurely aged, scientists at…
The International Rice Functional Genomics Consortium recently announced the public availability of more than 200,000 rice mutant lines, which represent…
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center have identified a key immunological defense reaction to the metals in joint replacement devices, leading to…
Moreover, advanced composites reinforced with nanotubes are also more than one million times more electrically conductive than their counterparts without…
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