Like all other living organisms, animals face the challenge of fending off enemies. Using chemical weaponry can be an effective strategy to stay alive. Instead…
Scientists from the University of Freiburg have developed materials systems that are composed of biological components and polymer materials and are capable of…
Over a period of five years, the TUM team along with colleagues from CK-CARE (Christine Kühne – Center for Allergy Research and Education, Davos) took daily…
Scientists from the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute have developed a new bone engineering technique called Segmental Additive Tissue…
While pregnancy in humans and seed development in plants look very different, parallels exist – not least that the embryo develops in close connection with the…
Allergic rhinitis, also known as hay fever, is the most common form of allergy. It is triggered by airborne allergens, including pollens, house dust mite and…
According to the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer type in men and the…
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are associated with particular proteins in the brain misfolding, aggregating, and inducing normal proteins to misfold and…
A research group led by Keigo Kamata and Michikazu Hara of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) has succeeded in developing a barium ruthenate (BaRuO3)…
500 million years ago, the first plants living in water took to land. The genetic adaptations associated with this transition can already be recognized in the…
As every cook has experienced: When balsamic vinegar and olive oil are mixed, both liquids separate. Round vinegar drops form, which then float on the surface…
To further develop semiconductor technology, the field of molecular electronics is seeking to manufacture circuit components from individual molecules instead…
The design of a drug with a desired duration of action, whether long or short, is usually a complicated and expensive trial-and-error process guided only by a…
Researchers from Michigan State University and the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan discovered eight new rare isotopes of the elements phosphorus, sulfur,…
Research by a team led by Dr Elizabeth Fullam, has revealed new findings about an enzyme found in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) the bacterium that causes TB.
Cancer cells are cells over which the human body has lost control. The fact that they are transformed body cells makes it all the more difficult to combat them…