Chemists at UC San Diego have measured for the first time the impact that dirty smoke from ships cruising at sea and generating electricity in port can have on…
Carnegie Mellon University's Terry Collins, the catalyst's inventor, believes that the small-molecule catalysts have the potential to be even more effective…
Add the outside assault to the pesticides already in the waxy structure of the hive, and bee researchers see a problem difficult to evaluate and correct….
A research team has discovered a new mechanism for cell fate determination — how one cell, the daughter, becomes dramatically different from the mother, even…
Bedsprings aren't often found in biology. Now, chemists have succeeded in making a layer of tiny protein coils attached to a surface, much like miniature…
The long-term prognosis of patients infected with West Nile virus is good, according to a new study appearing in the August 19, 2008, issue of Annals of…
Mount Sinai researchers have developed a new gene silencing technology that could be used to target genes that can lead to the development of certain diseases….
In a paper appearing in Nature Biotechnology August 17, a collaboration headed by researchers at the University of Washington and the U.S. Department of Energy…
The breakthrough could revolutionise the renewable energy industry by making hydrogen – touted as the clean, green fuel of the future – cheaper and easier to…
As developing countries confront the first global food crisis since the 1970s as well as unprecedented water scarcity, a new 53-city survey conducted by the…
The discovery could help explain the long-standing medical mystery of why non-smokers develop tobacco-related diseases like lung cancer, said H. Barry…
The U. S. Food and Drug Administration last spring linked contaminated batches of the animal-based product, imported from China, to more than 80 deaths and…
A second Phase I AIDS vaccine clinical trial in India was successfully completed, the Indian Council of Medical Research, the National AIDS Control…
“We are interested in the Design Thinking method of innovation, which has been successfully taught at both institutions. Through joint scientific research…
The study of the aboriginal children – from two communities which do not have words or gestures for numbers – found that they were able to copy and perform…
A study published today in BioMed Central’s open access Journal of Translational Medicine demonstrates that when circulation-blocked mice were treated with ERC…