Two surfaces stick together, separate, and stick together again—on command. This discovery by a team of researchers from the Universities of Sheffield (UK) and…
Cantilevers are miniature diving boards that measure 200 micrometers long and 40 micrometers wide, about half the width of a human hair. Two cantilevers are…
In concrete, the thesis defended by doctor Fernández Hortelano at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Navarra, proves the therapeutic efficiency in…
In a high-stakes tit for tat, protein kinase G enables healthy cells to stay on task to proliferate, differentiate then provide a useful function. Cancer…
The research reinforces previous results by German researchers, who found the same gene variant associated with the adult form of Crohn’s disease.Researchers…
“Plant breeders often find that five or six years after their release, resistant plant varieties become susceptible because pathogens can evolve very quickly…
While scientists have known for years that a common plant hormone, jasmonate, plays a crucial role in plant development and function, the steps that convert…
While biologists have long known that the structure of adult animals follows a blueprint laid out in the early stages of embryonic development, classical…
Competing theories on the origins of anatomically modern humans claim that either humans originated from a single point in Africa and migrated across the…
Usually, the synthesis of short protein chains (polypeptides) begins with the production of their components, the amino acids. But it can be done differently:…
This vaccine is intended to provide protection against all ‘A’ strains of the virus that causes human influenza, including pandemic strains. FluInfluenza is an…
FINDINGS: Researchers isolated bisdemethoxycurcumin, the active ingredient of curcuminoids – a natural substance found in turmeric root – that may help boost…
Scientists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere say they have mapped out an escape route that cancers use to evade the body’s immune system, allowing the disease to…
University of Southern California biologists have developed a method for sequencing both chromosomes of an organism. Their study appears in a recent issue of…
A new family tree for African green monkeys shows that an HIV-like virus, simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV, first infected those monkeys after the lineage…
Asthma attacks are caused by an acute inflammatory reaction in the airways, a reaction that is largely due to actions of LTC4 synthase. For this reason asthma…
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