Building upon several years of research into the gecko's uncanny ability to climb sheer walls, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have…
Drugs derived from cinchona bark, known as cinchona alkaloids, have been used in healing from ancient times. The most prominent representative of this group is…
Scott Belcher, PhD, and his team found when the same new and used polycarbonate drinking bottles were exposed to boiling hot water, BPA, an environmental…
In an achievement some see as the “holy grail” of nanoscience, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have for the first…
Using just one kind of nanoparticle (gold) the researchers built two common but very different crystalline structures by merely changing one thing — the…
Humans consume a distinct diet compared to other apes. Not only do we consume much more meat and fat, but we also cook our food. It has been hypothesized that…
The lens of the eye is made up of transparent proteins called crystallins. These are packed so tightly together and in such a particular way, that they behave…
Dr. Hidehito Kuroyanagi and colleagues at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University engineered a transgenic alternative splicing reporter system to monitor the…
It is often believed that snakes cannot hear. This presumption is fed by the fact that snakes lack an outer ear and that scientific evidence of snakes responding to sound is scarce. Snakes do, however, possess an inner ear with a functional cochlea….
The genetic alphabet contains four letters. Although our cells can readily decipher our genetic molecules, it isn’t so easy for us to read a DNA sequence in…
What drove the evolution of color change in chameleons? Chameleons can use color change to camouflage and to signal to other chameleons, but a new paper…
Retrovirus infections represent the most intimate host-pathogen relationship. The virus inserts a copy of its genome into the DNA of the host cell, resulting…
You can feel their pain. But, they can't feel ours.Evolution has benefited naked mole-rats by ridding them of a body chemical called Substance P, a…
Their findings will be published Jan. 28 in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.A significant proportion of human…
VIB researchers connected to Ghent University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven joined forces and have elucidated the function of MALT1, a key player in…
The study, published January 25 in the open access journal PLoS Computational Biology, looks at the molecular machinery that governs replication of DNA and…
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