This could lead to improved yields of food crops for both human and animal consumption. Researchers are also working on ‘molecular farming’ – production of…
Surprisingly as it may seem, this crane is the only one in the world that lives in the mountains! Its habitat is valleys of mountain rivers and lakes. Besides…
The human vector of Borrelia crocidurae in West Africa is the tick Ornithodoros sonrai, which lives in burrows of small wild rodents and is therefore in close…
The life sciences encompass research fields that have a direct impact on our quality of our health, food and environment including pharmaceuticals, genetics,…
A former astronaut and researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center will be traveling to the Cosmodrome space-launch site at Baikonur, Kazakhstan, this…
University of Alberta researchers, collaborating with colleagues at the Eindhoven University of Technology and Phillips Research Laboratories in the…
Freedom of expression is great, but silence is golden – at least when it comes to amoebae, which are intestine-dwelling parasites that cause life-threatening…
A team of scientists from the Weizmann Institute's Plant Sciences Department, led by Prof. Avigdor Scherz, has found that a switch in just two amino acids (the…
Mice missing BAG3 seem fine at birth, but when they start using their muscles to breathe and stand, muscle cells rapidly degenerate and cannot regenerate, says…
That's why one of the most common lab tests performed in industry is one that looks for traces of water in other substances, even though the test itself is…
Their crystal structure of the large T antigen/p53 complex interaction will be featured on the September 1st cover of G&D (see accompanying image).The Simian…
A team of researchers has genetically engineered normal immune cells to become specialized tumor fighters, demonstrating for the first time that these…
If anything in cancer biology can be likened to a cage match, this is it: the battle inside the cell walls between LTag, “The Most Amazing Molecule in the…
The researchers found a new way of measuring the activity of a group of enzymes called DNA topoisomerases that help package DNA, the molecule that stores…
Their analyses, for the first time, combine this new variant with all previously reported variants to estimate individual risk of advanced AMD. They observed…
For the first time, researchers have shown chimpanzees exhibit generational learning behavior similar to that in humans. Unlike previous findings that…
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