Dwindling crude oil reserves, accompanied by rising prices and environmental concerns, have led to increased interest in the use of renewable fuels. Biofuels…
“Life on Earth in all its diversity is encoded by only two pairs of DNA bases, A-T and C-G, and what we’ve made is an organism that stably contains those two…
Commonly used in labs to study cell division, C. crescentus naturally take on a banana-like curve, but they also can undergo a mutation in which they grow to…
More than 1% of the Danish population has type 1 diabetes, one of the highest incidence rates in the world.
Adults suffering from diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood-related disorders may benefit from life-saving treatment commonly used in pediatric…
These labs-on-a-chip would not only be quick—results are available in minutes—but also inexpensive and portable. They could be used miles from the nearest…
“Many plants rely on pollination of their flowers by insects and also need birds or mammals that disperse the plant seeds”, first author Jörg Albrecht…
Almost all herbivorous insects are specialized to feed on specific host plants and have adapted to their chemical defenses. Flea beetles are important pests of…
Chemical bonds between carbon and hydrogen atoms are amongst the strongest in nature and their selective breaking, in particular in symmetric molecules, is of…
The finding is reported in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Rice University scientists have designed a tunable virus that works like a safe deposit box. It takes two keys to open it and release its therapeutic cargo.
A collaborative discovery involving Kansas State University researchers may lead to the first universal treatment for dystonia, a neurological disorder that…
Dogs and puppies are gifted at interpreting human communicative hints, and previous studies showed that they use human visual cues like pointing or gazing in…
Superelasticity, also called “pseudoelasticity”, is the ability of special materials that have undergone extensive deformation to return to their original…
All industrial nations need large volumes of oil which is normally delivered by ocean-going tankers or via inland waterways to its destination.
The research also shows some of those traits have a neurobiological basis, and that those traits vary according to the biological sex of the individual…
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