By so doing, the company has made a timely response to new legislation, which will suspend the market availability of virgin HCFC refrigerants for service…
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered a mechanism by which intracellular pathogens can shut down one of the body's key chemical…
While digital video recorders and products like TiVo allow television viewers to skip past commercials, Boston College researchers have found that…
Red-eyed treefrogs, Agalychnis callidryas, lay jelly-covered egg clutches on leaves overhanging tropical ponds. Each clutch of several dozen transparent eggs…
A new study at the University of Melbourne has discovered that genetic variation in an asexual insect – insects that reproduce by cloning themselves – is…
A new study by a team of researchers at the Montpellier Institute of Molecular Genetics in France shows how the vaccine could have enhanced HIV infection. The…
Purdue University animal sciences professor Bill Muir was part of an international research team that analyzed the genetic lines of commercial chickens used to…
Professor Ulrich Trottenberg, head of Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI that co-ordinates the SIMDAT project describes the…
This data is published in the Nov. 3 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).UC professor Manoocher Soleimani, MD, and colleagues…
Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have borrowed a technique from such “intaglio” printing to create snapshots…
Using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), researchers in France were able to detect functional abnormalities in certain regions in the brains…
Researchers at Boston University working with collaborators in Germany, France and Korea have developed a nanoscale torsion resonator that measures miniscule…
Bacteria can directly cause human blood and plasma to clot—a process that was previously thought to have been lost during the course of vertebrate evolution,…
Scientists have long known that it's possible for one gene to produce slightly different forms of the same protein by skipping or including certain sequences…
A study of nearly 1,500 patients treated for kidney cancer at UCLA in the last 15 years shows that an aggressive, tailored treatment approach results in better…
The technology, called magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), produces color-coded images known as elastograms that indicate how internal organs, muscles and…