As synthetic biologists cram more and more genes into microbes to make genetically engineered organisms produce ever more complex drugs and chemicals, two…
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have done to laboratory zebrafish exactly what many people still do to themselves –…
Overcoming a critical conductivity challenge to clean energy technologies, Boston College researchers have developed a titanium nanostructure that provides an…
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut have pinpointed the source of immature cells that spur…
The study appeared online last week in advance of print publication in Nature. It is the first published study to search the entire genome looking for genes…
The Leeds team has discovered that the myosin 7 motor protein – found in the tiny hairs of the inner ear that pick up sound – moves and works in a different…
PhD student Paul Oliver, from the University's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, has done a detailed genetic study of the Australian gecko genus…
The conference, held the institute of Parasitología y Biomedicina “López-Neyra”, CSIC in Granada, Spain, on 23 February 2009, was part of an ESF initiative to…
The team, whose principal investigators include Gregory Frolenkov of the UK Department of Physiology, developed “hopping probe ion conductance microscopy,” in…
The new study entitled, “Role of calcium-independent phospholipase A2 in the pathogenesis of Barth syndrome”, was recently published in the Proceedings of the…
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that can cause major disability. There currently is no cure. “This study is one of the first to provide…
“Undesirable” evolution in fish – which makes their bodies grow smaller and fishery catches dwindle — can actually be reversed in a few decades' time by…
In a study published in the open access journal BMC Biology, researchers show that its effectiveness against a number of susceptible Lepidopteran species…
To understand how different materials are taken up and what happens within the cells can for example facilitate the development of new vaccines.”The immune…
Previously found to increase glucose production by the liver during fasting, the culprit—a protein known as CREB—is also activated in fat tissue of obese mice…
Induced by global warming, regions of oxygen-poor water – so-called oxgen minimum zones – are expanding in the world's oceans. That has significant…
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