Northwestern University researchers have developed a 55,000-pen, two-dimensional array that allows them to simultaneously create 55,000 identical patterns…
The disorder affects between 3 percent and 5 percent of the population and is considered an impulse control disorder. Patients with trichotillomania have…
An international group of researchers today unveiled a detailed map of human genetic variation within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), the most…
MF 59 is an adjuvant–a substance that increases the immune system's ability to respond to a stimulus. For this research, the investigators used inactivated…
They compared the ability of the four best-characterized jumping genes, or transposons, to insert themselves into a cell's DNA and produce a desired change,…
However, a study from the November/December 2006 issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology shows that even ugly birds get their day. Providing new insight…
Their discovery, detailed in this week’s early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could pave the way for the development of…
Few stop to consider the consequences of their daily ablutions, the washing of clothes, the watering of lawns, and the flush of a toilet. However, wastewater…
The first phase of the study is designed to test the safety of the treatment and determine the proper dosage of gene, said Dr. Dov Kadmon, professor of urology…
In a new study published online today in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Mathieu Joron, Chris Jiggins, and colleagues investigate the underlying genetic…
Any hope of recovering such critically endangered species depends on understanding what drives changes in population size following habitat contraction. In a…
They are natural or synthetic additives authorised by food security regulations and used to colour food and drinks in an artificial way. A research team of the…
Bio-Nector is an exclusively Internet and e-mail-based service relying on a simple principle: as a matchmaking service, it brokers contacts between companies…
“As honeybees become more scarce, it becomes more important to have better pollinators,” said Sarah Greenleaf, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis and first…
“We can monitor the process directly, and that gives us a different perspective,” said Roberto Galletto, a postdoctoral scholar at UC Davis and first author on…
Aquaporins are a class of proteins that form membrane channels in cell walls and allow for water movement between a cell and its surroundings. A number of…
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