As part of a major international project to design more earthquake-resistant woodframe buildings, an engineer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be…
A preemptive spark lasting for nanoseconds that helps find potentially dangerous short circuits hidden in the miles of wiring behind the panels of aging…
Using molecular tools, biologist Joe Roman, conducting research at Harvard University's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, found that it was…
The work was reported June 8 in the advance online issue of The EMBO Journal, a publication of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Tumor cells…
“Live and Fresh Seafood: Into the Pan, Not Into the Wild,” provides details about proper handling and disposal of live seafood and seafood waste and is…
Structural biologists Juha Huiskonen and Sarah Butcher from the Academy of Finland Virus Research Centre of Excellence, University of Helsinki, have determined…
That challenge is how to find a robust, efficient and economical way to introduce all these tiny programs to each other, and to alert other programs of their…
The origin of the crisis was the feeding of cattle with animal feed that was contaminated by a new pathogenic agent – a prion. These cows, after a long…
According to the 2002 World report on ART presented at the 22nd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Prague, Czech…
In a unique partnership with three image reading centres located in The Queen’s University of Belfast, St Paul’s Eye Unit, Liverpool and Moorfields Eye…
Professor Sukchareon and his team had been studying men with obstructive azoospermia, a condition where sperm are created but cannot be mixed with the…
Both studies involve the jet of the quasar 3C273, famous since its identification in 1963 as the first quasar. It now appears that the most energetic radiation…
Their discovery could allow scientists to finally understand the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field. This exciting new view of…
It is now possible to carry out assessments automatically in minutes, guaranteeing consistency in testing from checking quality of trade goods and confirming…
Genome Biology is BioMed Central’s flagship title covering biology in the post-genomic era. Genome Biology publishes articles from the full spectrum of biology…
The Acoustic Real-time Monitoring System gauges the stability of slopes by listening to soil movement. It is hoped that this radical new system will be more…