They did this in cooperation with a German colleague from the University of Bremen. The scientists developed an entirely new method to reconstruct the history…
Analyses of glacial sedimentary rocks in Oman, published online today in Geology, have produced clear evidence of hot-cold cycles in the Cryogenian period,…
The concept has been demonstrated in worms and researchers hope that the same concept can help extend human life and reduce the risk of cancer and other…
Researchers at the Royal Free Hospital in London, which now has the lowest CDI rates of any teaching hospital in the UK, investigated the best way to encourage…
The researchers, led by Professor Vernonica Franklin-Tong, have found that the poppy use a common 'enzyme switch', phosphorylation, as one of its key weapons…
The research is reported in the SCI’s magazine Chemistry & Industry. The debate over the relative health benefits of organic versus conventional food has raged…
The inventive solar cell is based on the “third generation solar cells” concept. Due to the special structure of the composite the properties absorption and…
This work, appearing March 23 in Science, also suggests that when the first ancestral primate inherited a new type of photoreceptor more than 40 million years…
Dr. Gürol Süel, assistant professor of pharmacology, said his research and that of his colleagues published today in the journal Science represents “a new…
A study published in this week’s Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Journal offers – for the first time – a model for the complex process of…
Although plastic surgery should not be seen as a panacea for feelings of low self-worth or sexual attractiveness, it is important for health-care practitioners…
The online data framework distinguishes between changes in the natural carbon cycle and those occurring in human-produced fossil fuel emissions. It also…
Mercury is toxic to animals and humans in large concentrations, particularly in the form known as methyl mercury, which accumulates in fish. To date, WHOI…
This work has explained, for the first time, how specificity in translation is achieved that is so much greater than that expected from the hydrogen bonding…
According to the latest Health Survey for England, nearly two in three adults in this age group suffer from high blood pressure, roughly one in four is obese,…
This system enables the monitoring and treatment of and support for both patients and elderly people, from the comfort and convenience of their homes, by means…