A research team from McMaster University and the University of New South Wales has found that among cichlids, a species that lives in groups, members make…
“We have shown that when Prussian blue is dissolved in ammoniac solutions it produces hydrogen cyanide, a substance that could have played a fundamental role…
The work of U of A Earth and Atmospheric Sciences professor Duane Froese and his colleagues counters an important extinction theory, based on radiocarbon…
“The most exciting part of this discovery is that this molecule is a whole new kind of antifreeze that may work in a different location of the cell and in a…
This precarious stability leaves proteins and the living beings that depend upon them on the edge of a precipice, where a single destabilizing change in a key…
Their study of the model organism Daphnia pulex (water flea) is the first to demonstrate the colonization of a single lineage by “introns,” as the interrupting…
Mark McDonald of WhaleAcoustics in Bellvue, Colo., along with John Hildebrand of Scripps Oceanography and Sarah Mesnick of NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries…
A new study by University of Michigan graduate student Jeremy Wright finds that at least 1,250 and possibly more than 1,600 species of catfish may be…
In her dissertation at Lund University in Sweden, the physician Emma Elsmén Steen has explored why male gender constitutes a risk factor for greater morbidity…
Small, structured nucleic acid strands designed to interact with specific target molecules, known as aptamers, are particularly interesting to scientists as…
Metal catalysts, with their ability to both speed up chemical reactions and influence product structures, have revolutionized manufacturing of essential goods…
Moriya OhkumaHead of the Japan Collection of MicroorganismsRIKEN BioResource CenterInvestigations are under way all over the world to produce biofuels by…
Though they remain a leading killer, heart attacks can be effectively treated provided they can be rapidly diagnosed following initial onset of symptoms. In a…
The MSU researchers for the first time were able to produce in the laboratory proteins that help channel sodium ions through cell membranes of parasites known…
Even small errors made by cells during protein production can have profound disease effects, and nature has developed ways to uncover these mistakes and…
Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San DiegoThe sound level of songs blue whales sing across the vast expanses of the ocean to…
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