Research is the guarantor of the quality of knowledge, though it is often not clear how scientific research guarantees the reliability of knowledge. How…
Systems running in parallel like the DASGIP Parallel Bioreactor System generate an enormous quantity of process derived data even in a single experimental…
Researchers, whose results appear in the March issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, tested water over a one-year period in rivers and…
The study is published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The scientists used a computer model developed at the Danish Centre for Earth System Science (DCESS)…
Siemens Healthcare recently introduced the Acuson S2000 Automated Breast Volume Scanner (ABVS), the first multi-use ultrasound breast system that automatically…
Thesignallingcascadeofcalcineurin(CnA)andthenuclearfactorofactivatedTcells(NF-ATc)isacrucialtransducerofcellularfunction.NF-ATcisanubiquitoustranscriptionfactorbuthasparticularrelevanceincytokineexpressionandthedevelopmentofpathologicmyocardialhypertrphy….
Four tons of seeds – almost 90,000 samples of hundreds of crop species – from food crop collections maintained by Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, USA, and three…
A collaborative research effort spanning nearly a decade between researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and King’s College London (KCL) has…
Discovering the different genes that contribute to a complex disease is like searching in the proverbial haystack for an unknown number of needles–some much…
In a study published online in Genome Research (www.genome.org), scientists have performed the first global survey of salivary microbes, finding that the oral…
When squeezed, electrons increase their ability to move around. In compounds such as semiconductors and electrical insulators, such squeezing can dramatically…
Next time you have an unlucky encounter with a crab's pinchers, consider that the claw tips may be reinforced with bromine-rich biomaterial 1.5 times harder…
Dr Loretta Dunne and her team have found new evidence of huge dust production in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, the remains of a star that exploded about…
A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool cache recently unearthed in the city limits of Boulder, Colo., indicates some of the implements were…
The practice of no-till has increased considerably during the past 20 yr. Soils under no-till usually host a more abundant and diverse biota and are less prone…
An extreme heat wave affected much of the state of California during mid- to late July 2006, breaking daily maximum temperature records in many regions of the…
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