The news is reported in the latest edition of The Royal Society of Chemistry journal Chemical Communications.With recent advances in the technology of portable…
The pioneering First Aid Splint is designed to protect and aid the recovery of damaged bones when the patient is in isolated conditions that are difficult to…
The research, published in PLoS Biology, focuses on the study of bdelloid rotifers, microscopic aquatic animals that live in watery or occasionally wet…
For example, cave dwelling or subterranean animals often have reduced eyes and brain regions involved in visual processing. These differences suggest that…
In this study, Jason Brickner and colleagues show that recruited genes are actively retained at the periphery for generations after transcription is repressed….
However, biological clocks are also encountered in almost every cell type (so-called “peripheral” clocks), in which they regulate daily changes in cell…
The 3D-structure can provide information about critical protein-protein interactions both from a global perspective as well as all the way down to the level of…
The field of radiobiology is built on the premise that radiation is dangerous because of its damaging effects on DNA. Contrary to that view, Daly et al. report…
Bdelloids have remained an enduring enigma in part because biologists are still debating whether the species actually exist as true evolutionary entities. And…
Four 30- to 40-foot-long NASA suborbital sounding rockets were launched into the night sky within a period of 16 minutes as part of the HEX 2 project, a…
Does an aspirin-a-day increase the risk of bleeding during invasive diagnostic procedure? This is an important concern for many patients who take these and…
From 1981-2002, warming reduced the combined production of wheat, corn, and barley—cereal grains that form the foundation of much of the world’s diet—by 40…
Sandia’s huge Z machine, which generates termperatures hottter than the sun, has turned water to ice in nanoseconds. However, don’t expect anything commercial…
A study done in collaboration with the University of Washington found that using a metallic “Trojan Horse”—tricking the bacteria by replacing the iron they…
The new area of research promises particularly interesting findings for the development of clothing and home textiles, as well as technical, medical and…
By its nature, poliovirus destroys the cells it infects in an attempt to replicate copies of itself. When released from the cells it kills, the replicated…
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