Just as homes have smoke detectors, cells have an enzyme that responds to a buildup of fatty acids by triggering the production of a key molecule in the…
Americans are bombarded with antismoking messages, yet at least 65 million of us continue to light up. Genetic factors play an important role in this…
Adding ultrasonic pretreatment to soy processing boosts and improves the yield of protein that can be added to foods, said Samir Khanal, an Iowa State research…
The sensor provides a fast, on-site test for assessing uranium contamination in the environment, and the effectiveness of remediation strategies, said Yi Lu, a…
The researchers developed a technique to simultaneously or sequentially add optical and magnetic nanoparticles into the beads. Adding magnetic nanoparticles…
Motion-defined transparency is a common occurrence in the natural environment where multiple directions of motion occur in the same spatial region, for example…
The yearly influenza vaccine that health officials urge people to get each fall might also offer certain individuals some cross protection against the H5N1…
New genes conferring a predisposition to DT2 have been identified. They include the zinc transporter of pancreatic insulin-secreting cells (ZnT8), which is a…
A report on the experiments will be published online this week at PLoS Medicine and “establishes a new doctrine for regenerative neuroscience,” says Vassilis…
The electric signals from their facetted eyes travel through specialized neurons to stimulate the wing muscles, which let the insects correct their flight and…
Now, scientists say they have identified a key enzyme that triggers chronic inflammation in the aorta and promotes the growth of aneurysms. Their finding…
A new class of computational methods has been developed to construct distributions of where such monitored organisms are most likely to be found in space and…
Biologists have discovered a new super-family of developmental proteins that are critical for cell growth and differentiation and whose further study is…
The first detailed report of the Raman spectroscopic studies of paint specimens from this artwork has been published (February 2007) in a paper by Professor…
The Scripps Research team, led by neuroscientists Manuel Sanchez-Alavez and Tamas Bartfai, discovered that mice genetically altered to lack a molecule known as…
The new findings, which are being published the week of February 12 in an online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer…
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