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Environmental Conservation

Addressing Climate Challenges Amid Rapid Change

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) aims to avoid what is called “dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. However,…

Life & Chemistry

Minimum Information Standards – all for one and one for all

As the quantity of available biological information and the use of public data repositories increases, consistency in the information held in these databases…

Technology Offerings

Innovative RBL-Cell Lines Overexpress Chemokine Receptors

Scientists of the University of Göttingen developed many different transfectant RBL-celllines which are overexpressing different Chemokine receptors like CCR5,…

Technology Offerings

RBL-C5aR cell line

Scientists at the University of Göttingen developed a transfectant RBL-C5aR cell line which is able to express more than 1 million C5a receptors on its cell…

Studies and Analyses

Innovative Research on Plumbing Odors in Drinking Water

The sampling was part of pioneering research on how plumbing materials affect the odor and taste of drinking water, which was reported here today at the 234th…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Underground Innovations in Climate Change Research

Climate change, a recent “hot topic” when studying the atmosphere, oceans, and Earth’s surface; however, the study of another important factor to this global…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring Plant Adaptations for Bat Pollination Strategies

New research shows how different species of plants evolve unique floral adaptations in order to transfer pollen on different regions of bats’ bodies, thus…

Health & Medicine

New Advances in Treating Skin Pigment Disorders

The finding offers hope for new approaches to the treatment of pigmentation disorders that leave the skin disfigured by light or dark blotches. In a two-year,…

Life & Chemistry

Space-Grown Strep Bacteria Returned for Groundbreaking Study

The space travelers Niesel was meeting weren’t astronauts. They were Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria, members of a species commonly found in the human upper…

Life & Chemistry

Inducing Out-of-Body Experiences in the Lab: New Technique

Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now come up with a technique that recreates this sensation in fully conscious healthy…

Physics & Astronomy

New Anti-Landmine Radar Technology Showcases Innovative Design

Writing in Inderscience's Journal of Design Research, the team explains how the new technology, with further industrial development, could eventually make vast…

Power and Electrical Engineering

‘Thin-layer’ solar cells may bring cheaper ‘green’ power

The experts at Durham University are developing light-absorbing materials for use in the production of thin-layer solar photovoltaic (PV) cells which are used…

Life & Chemistry

p15: A Key Tumor Suppressor in the Absence of p16

Now, scientist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam have discovered that p15 can fulfil a critical backup…

Physics & Astronomy

HAWK-I Expands ESO VLT’s Vision for Near-Infrared Astronomy

Europe's flagship ground-based astronomical facility, the ESO VLT, has been equipped with a new 'eye' to study the Universe. Working in the near-infrared, the…

Physics & Astronomy

Uranus Rings Edge-On: Rare Astronomical View Unveiled

As Uranus coasts through a brief window of time when its rings are edge-on to Earth – a view of the planet we get only once every 42 years – astronomers…

Physics & Astronomy

AKARI’s observations of asteroid Itokawa

The data collected by AKARI, a JAXA mission with ESA participation, complements that from JAXA’s asteroid explorer Hayabusa in late April this year. As AKARI…

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