Whether the problem be zoonoses, diseases that may be transmitted from animals to man, or animal diseases that become epidemics, preventive or therapeutic…
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:…
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…
Award winners and honorable mentions will be officially celebrated at BioMed Central’s Open Access Colloquium being held today at The Royal College of…
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…
Ground crystalline molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) has reliably proven itself as a universal and inert solid lubricant. Its lubricity could lately be outperformed by…
Particle size reduction currently receives rapidly growing attention from all industry sectors since it allows to derive interesting material properties from…
Several isoquinoline alkaloids with interesting, pharmaceutically useful properties have recently been isolated from marine as well as terrestrial organisms….
Natural compounds with naphthalene or biphenyl substructures and interesting, pharmaceutically useful properties (e.g. naphthyl isoquinolines) have often been…
The physiological role of natural products with isoquinoline or naphthalene skeletal frameworks served as a model for three compound classes, for which for the…
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…
Modeling global average productivity to compare environmental tradeoffs and human-induced stressors in the environment Thomas Dietz (Michigan State…
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…
To accurately transport pharmaceutical agents to their specific target organs or cell types, you need a good carrier: nanoscopic capsules with surface elements…
They also discovered that this regulatory substance, an enzyme named GCN2 eIF2alpha kinase, has an unexpectedly profound impact on fat metabolism. “Some…
When Dr. Michael Schneider, professor of medicine, molecular & cellular biology, and molecular physiology & biophysics at BCM, and his colleagues studied…