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Environmental Conservation

Positive Insights on Ozone Depletion in Latest Research

The news is reported in the latest edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences.Depletion of the ozone layer over…

Health & Medicine

Electrical Treatment Advances Tumor Removal Techniques

The technique, known as irreversible electroporation (IRE), was developed by a research team headed by Boris Rubinsky, currently on leave as professor of…

Life & Chemistry

Renaissance Painting Insights from Raman Spectroscopy Studies

The first detailed report of the Raman spectroscopic studies of paint specimens from this artwork has been published (February 2007) in a paper by Professor…

Environmental Conservation

Love is…Saving the planet

University of Leicester ecologist Dr David Harper, who has been studying the lake for 25 years, says almost half a million people now live around the shores of…

Studies and Analyses

Visual Cues Impact Timing of Sexual Maturation in Species

Research published today in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters shows for the first time how the sight of physical ornamentation on another member of the…

Life & Chemistry

New Protein Super-Family Essential for Animal Development

Biologists have discovered a new super-family of developmental proteins that are critical for cell growth and differentiation and whose further study is…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Methods for Estimating Local Ranges in Wildlife

A new class of computational methods has been developed to construct distributions of where such monitored organisms are most likely to be found in space and…

Environmental Conservation

Cold Climate Role of Algae in Multicellular Life’s Origins

A group of Finnish scientists suggests a new climate-biosphere interaction mechanism for the underlying processes in a new study, which will be published on…

Environmental Conservation

Desert Decline: Over 50% of Mature Trees Vanish Since 1965

In places more than 50% of the mature trees have disappeared between1965 and 2003, while almost no new trees have been recruited. Despite extreme aridity the…

Environmental Conservation

Yale biologists 'trick' viruses into extinction

To avoid going extinct a population must not only survive, but also reproduce. Paul Turner, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale,…

Life & Chemistry

Vasectomy Linked to Increased Risk of Primary Progressive Aphasia

The dementia is Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), a neurological disease in which people have trouble recalling and understanding words. In PPA, people lose…

Life & Chemistry

Nanoparticles Illuminate Disease-Causing Proteins Discovery

Purdue University researchers bound a complex nanomolecule, called a dendrimer, with a glowing identification tag that was delivered to specific proteins in…

Health & Medicine

New Blood Thinner Promises Hope for Clot Patients

Other medications and even diet can dramatically impact blood levels of warfarin, or Coumadin™, increasing the risk of bleeding or clotting, says Dr. James R….

Studies and Analyses

Rotten to the core: How workplace 'bad apples' spoil barrels of good employees

The researchers' paper, appearing in the current issue of Research in Organizational Behavior, examines how, when and why the behaviors of one negative member…

Life & Chemistry

Mice Cloned From Skin Cells: A Breakthrough in Stem Cell Research

Keratinocytes come from the skin, making them a particularly attractive stem cell source because of their ready accessibility. One day, they could be used to…

Life & Chemistry

Harvard Team Develops Spray Drying Technique for TB Vaccine

Bioengineers and public health researchers have developed a novel spray drying method for preserving and delivering the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine….

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