Understanding the oceans' role as a source and sink for airborne microbes can provide insight into the maintenance of microbial diversity and how human, animal…
Researchers with the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute found that boosting adipocytes, or fat cells, located in the bone morrow suppressed…
For this reason, research has been under heavy pressure for years on the efficient use of this valuable raw material, and for some years now also the Leibniz…
Between 2001 and 2005 the massive black bird mortality in eastern Austria received wide public attention. Usutu virus, the aetiological agent, belongs to the…
Electronic devices that are completely broken down in a biological environment after a pre-defined operating life open up novel applications as well as ways…
The average human consists of about 37.2 trillion cells. But not all cells are created equal: while muscle cells contain the molecular machinery to contract…
Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria found that in cases where two ant-queens founded a colony together and one of the queens died…
TSRI's Floyd Romesberg and Tingjian Chen, in a study published online in the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, showed that they could make several…
IBS scientists at the Center for Self-Assembly and Complexity, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), invented a hydrogel to fight rheumatoid arthritis…
Chemistry is a complex dance of atoms. Subtle shifts in position and shuffles of electrons break and remake chemical bonds as participants change partners….
Tim Herfurth and Tatjana Tchumatchenko from the Theory of Neural Dynamics Group (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) now dive into the wide variety of…
The ability to track the movements of single molecules has revealed how proteins on the surface of nerve cells control gates that turn chemical signals into…
Soil erosion is considered as a problem that puts the nutrition of the human population at jeopardy. One of its aspects is soil salination, which affects in…
‘We showed in our study that about one third of the fish allergic patients tolerated specific types of fish,’ says Dr Kühn from LIH’s Department of Infection…
The cell cycle is the system through which a cell grows and divides. It is also how a cell passes its DNA to its progeny and is why the cell cycle ceases if…
In old age a variety of cellular processes decline and the risk to develop age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or Diabetes increases…
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