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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Combating Emerging Animal Diseases: Prevention and Cure Strategies

Whether the problem be zoonoses, diseases that may be transmitted from animals to man, or animal diseases that become epidemics, preventive or therapeutic…

Environmental Conservation

Biomass as Clean Fuel for the Steel Industry: New Insights

To this end, over the past two and a half years, the project has been pooling the research and development capacities of 47 partners in 15 European countries:…

Earth Sciences

University of Granada’s Groundbreaking Study on Scotia Arc Geodynamics

This work, carried put in the Dpt. of Geodynamics of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada, [http://www.ugr.es]) and the Andalusian Institute of…

Life & Chemistry

BioMed Central Unveils First Open Access Research Awards Winners

Award winners and honorable mentions will be officially celebrated at BioMed Central’s Open Access Colloquium being held today at The Royal College of…

Life & Chemistry

Uncovering Prehistoric Origins of Stomach Ulcers

The research, published online today (7 February) by the journal Nature, not only furthers our understanding of a disease causing bacteria but also offers a…

Technology Offerings

Enhanced Production Methods for MoS2 Nanoparticles

Ground crystalline molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) has reliably proven itself as a universal and inert solid lubricant. Its lubricity could lately be outperformed by…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Process Technology for Nanocrystalline Material Precipitation

Particle size reduction currently receives rapidly growing attention from all industry sectors since it allows to derive interesting material properties from…

Technology Offerings

New Isoquinoline Alkaloids Show Promise Against Malaria

Several isoquinoline alkaloids with interesting, pharmaceutically useful properties have recently been isolated from marine as well as terrestrial organisms….

Technology Offerings

Novel Compounds Target Chagas Disease Treatment Solutions

Natural compounds with naphthalene or biphenyl substructures and interesting, pharmaceutically useful properties (e.g. naphthyl isoquinolines) have often been…

Technology Offerings

Exploring New Anti-Tumor Pharmaceutical Compound Classes

The physiological role of natural products with isoquinoline or naphthalene skeletal frameworks served as a model for three compound classes, for which for the…

Technology Offerings

Single-Chain Fragments: A New Approach to Virus Resistance

Virus diseases of plants cannot be treated in a curative way, the best strategy to construct and obtain healthy plants is to establish a virus resistant…

Environmental Conservation

Human's ecological footprint in 2015 and Amazonia revealed

Modeling global average productivity to compare environmental tradeoffs and human-induced stressors in the environment Thomas Dietz (Michigan State…

Physics & Astronomy

All-Optical Buffering: Physicists Delay and Retrieve Images

The ability to delay an entire image and retrieve it intact opens a new avenue in optical buffering—short-term storage of information as optical images. While…

Life & Chemistry

Navigable Nanotransport: Precision Delivery for Pharmaceuticals

To accurately transport pharmaceutical agents to their specific target organs or cell types, you need a good carrier: nanoscopic capsules with surface elements…

Life & Chemistry

New Enzyme GCN2 eIF2alpha Regulates Metabolism and Health

They also discovered that this regulatory substance, an enzyme named GCN2 eIF2alpha kinase, has an unexpectedly profound impact on fat metabolism. “Some…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough MAT1 Study Offers Hope for Heart Failure Treatment

When Dr. Michael Schneider, professor of medicine, molecular & cellular biology, and molecular physiology & biophysics at BCM, and his colleagues studied…

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