A wide range of industrially synthesized nanomaterials are present in products we use daily and, in the meantime, are part of our everyday life. Due to their…
A new world of flexible, bendable, even stretchable electronics is emerging from research labs to address a wide range of potentially game-changing uses. The…
Now, a team of Rockefeller University researchers has explored in detail how the wiring of the male fly brain enables him to assess the suitability of a…
It has long been known that almost all organisms have microbial companions. However, only about ten years ago did researchers find out that these bacterial…
This could help to explain why some insect species in some years are very abundant pests and cause substantial damage in agriculture and forestry.
The team of Prof. Carsten Schmidt-Weber and Prof. Jan Gutermuth of the Center of Allergy & Environment (ZAUM) at Helmholtz Zentrum München and TU München…
Congestive heart failure is one of the leading causes of death in industrialized countries. The disease has various causes, including high blood pressure,…
An international team including scientists from the Universities of Gothenburg (Sweden), São Paulo (Brazil) and Lausanne (Switzerland) analyzed over 2000…
The most familiar type of mimicry typically involves warning or “aposematic” coloration, in which a harmless species apes the color patterns of a dangerous or…
Discoveries made by scientists in Cologne lead to new perspectives in the treatment of colorectal cancer, lung cancer, and lymphomas. Dr. Michael Lammers and…
When we see an object, the following essentially happens: the light emanating from the object hits our eye, whereupon nerve cells transmit a signal to the…
Cellular repair systems can dissolve aggregated proteins and now Heidelberg researchers have successfully decoded the fundamental mechanism that is key to…
When the right gene is expressed in the right manner in the right population of stem cells, the developing mouse brain can exhibit primate-like features….
Wet adhesion is a true engineering challenge. Marine animals such as mussels, oysters and barnacles are naturally equipped with the means to adhere to rock,…
If you‘ve had a good night’s sleep, you are mentally more alert and your memory works more reliably. During sleep, a part of our forebrain called the…
Singapore scientists from A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have, for the first time, found further evidence of how the differentiation of…
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