“The drill is one of Africa's most endangered primates and this is the first publication that analyses drill conservation status in detail across the majority…
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered that a protein used by cancer cells to evade death also plays a vital role in heart health….
The technique, named cell type specific labeling using amino acid precursors (CTAP), exploits the inability of vertebrate cells to synthesize essential amino…
Logic gates are the means by which computers “compute,” as sets of them are combined in different ways to enable computers to ultimately perform tasks like…
Emerging sequencing technologies have revolutionized the collection of genomic data for bioforensics, biosurveillance and for use in clinical settings….
Every cell in an organism's body has the same copy of DNA, yet different cells do different things; for example, some function as brain cells, while others…
Working in collaboration with an international team of researchers, Dr Vincent Keng Wee-keong, Assistant Professor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University…
The selectins belonging to the C-type lectins were identified in the early 1990s. There are numerous reports that underscore their biological significance. In…
Anyone who has ever worked in a laboratory has seen them: magnetic stirrers that rotate magnetic stir bars in liquids to mix them. The stir bars come in many…
A joint research project of the Max Planck and Fraunhofer Societies has received substantial financial support enabling scientists to open the door for new…
By making use of sunlight to generate molecular oxygen and other energy-rich chemical compounds that other organisms can utilize as nutrients, photosynthesis…
Neurobiologists at Heidelberg University have identified calcium in the cell nucleus to be a cellular “switch” responsible for the formation of long-term…
The virus has several highly unusual traits that paint a disquieting picture of a pathogen that may yet lead to a pandemic, according to lead scientists from…
Corals may let certain bacteria get under its skin, according to a new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and King Abdullah…
The temporal niches – changes in environmental conditions that occur during specific periods of time – promoted frequency-dependent selection within the…
A team of SRI International researchers has demonstrated that measurements of electrical activity in the brains of mouse models of Huntington's disease could…
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