Their study calls into question long-held assumptions about golden eagle vision, indicating that the raptors may not be as sensitive to ultraviolet light as…
Five million people suffer cartilage damage to the knee every year in Germany. Cartilage injuries are not only painful; they can lead to osteoarthritis decades…
Filtration using membrane filters is one of the most commonly used separation techniques. Modern developments are aimed at membranes with tailored separation…
The mangrove ecosystem is known as a highly productive habitat for isolating actinomycetes, which has the potential of producing biologically active secondary…
Epileptic encephalopathies are severe disorders which occur even in babies. They are accompanied by a disturbed maturation of the brain as well as by an…
The article, published in the journal Clinical & Experimental Immunology, argues that people living in urban centers who have less access to green spaces may…
When viruses infect cells, they take control of cellular metabolism and hijack cellular resources for the production of viral proteins. This process is…
Banerjee, assistant professor of materials science and an expert in working with nanomaterials, Fei Wu, graduate research assistant, and Yoon Myung, PhD, a…
Using mouse models, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have now been able to categorize the alternative splicing (the process in which genes code…
Plenty of other world cuisines rely on it too, from China to India to Thailand. But Latin America, researchers have confirmed, is where it started.
Alzheimer's disease is the first cause of dementia and affects some 400,000 people in Spain alone. However, no effective cure has yet been found. One of the…
From a cognitive perspective, understanding one's own relationships to others is a key ability in daily social life (“knowing who is nice or not”). Yet,…
To keep themselves neat, tidy and above all healthy, cells rely on a variety of recycling and trash removal systems. If it weren't for these systems, cells…
Dr. Doug Zochodne and his team have discovered a key molecule that directly regulates nerve cell growth in the damaged nervous system. His study was published…
The findings, reported in mBio® the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, hints that cow manure is a potential source of new…
The tropical disease malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite. For its survival and propagation, Plasmodium requires a protein called actin. Scientists of…