Using advanced technology and an approach that merges engineering and medicine, a Yale University-led team has compiled some of the most sophisticated data yet…
Integrated into neurons, this could make KR2 a valuable tool for optogenetics, a new field of research that uses light-sensitive proteins as molecular switches…
Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that replenish themselves and based on their tissue location can become specialized cells such as blood or skin cells.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)’s Department of Bio and Brain Engineering Professor Ji-Ho Park and his team successfully developed a…
How does an acorn know to fall when the other acorns do? What triggers insects, or disease, to suddenly break out over large areas? Why do fruit trees have…
“Living fluids are found everywhere, from vaccines to yogurt to biofuels,” said Paulo Arratia, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical…
Dr. Andreas Walther, research group leader at DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Aachen, developed an aqueous system that uses a single…
Why do some people learn a new skill right away, while others only gradually improve? Whatever else may be different about their lives, something must be…
The richness of species in an ecosystem is not only a source of joy for nature lovers; it also defines an ecosystem’s functional characteristics and…
From the time humans began discovering and conquering new continents, they also started transporting animals and plants around the world and releasing them in…
Dividing cells–whether they're in an embryo or an adult–rely on the right processes happening at the right time to turn out healthy.
Since microbes are heavily involved in, and critically important to environmental processes from nutrient recycling, to carbon processing, to the fertility of…
An international team has for the first time precisely tracked the surprisingly rapid process by which light rearranges the outermost electrons of a metal…
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the ocean is a highly complex mixture of different carbon-based substances which are metabolic or excretory products from…
Spring is here and ectotherms, or animals dependent on external sources to raise their body temperature, are becoming more active. Recent studies have shown…
Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zurich have succeeded in building a miniscule chemical reactor in the lab that could one day be used to…
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