For their ability to differentiate into other cell types, the embryonic stem cells hold a large potential in the medical industry. Their use, however, poses…
A long-standing fact widely accepted among the scientific community has been recently refuted, which now has major implications on our understanding of how…
Major advances in the field of organic electronics are currently revolutionising previously silicon-dominated semiconductor technology. Customised organic…
Approximately 40,000 products of everyday life contain natural rubber. It’s the material that provides extreme elasticity, tensile strength and low-temperature…
Quality control is important – this is not only applicable to industrial production but also true for all life processes. However, whereas an enterprise can…
“I work as a research associate on a project into the sticky characteristics of amphibian tongues”, says Dr Thomas Kleinteich, from the Functional Morphology…
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic lung disease for which as yet no causal therapy exists. It is, however, known that the lung interstitium – the…
In a new study, Athena Aktipis, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, along with her international colleagues, explore the ways in…
In research published June 4 in Cell, Rockefeller University scientists have uncovered crucial steps in the dynamic dance that dilates and constricts the…
The breakthrough will make a big splash in the field of drug discovery and development, where precise protein structure blueprints can help researchers…
In a study posted online on June 5, 2015, and to be published in the July 2015 issue of Genome Research, the researchers reported that the gene-editing…
When a plant is attacked by herbivores, this triggers a number of physiological responses in the plant. Calcium ions are important messengers for the…
The incidence of tissue dysfunction, diseases and many types of cancer exponentially increases above the age of 45, showing a growing number of mutant stem or…
That was the key message of a new study recently published in the journal Science, in which American and German biologists defined the first universal…
Particular immune cells of the body called dendritic cells are in principle capable of recognizing HIV-1 as foreign invader. HIV-1, usually just referred to as…
By mutating specific genes in Populus–a genus of deciduous trees that includes poplar, aspen and cottonwood–the researchers reduced the concentrations of two…
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