Cold viruses generally get a bad rap—-which they've certainly earned—-but new findings by a team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies…
Atmospheric chemists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have found that when it comes to secondary organic material in the…
Washington State University researchers have found that viruses will join forces to overcome a plant's defenses and cause more severe infections.”These…
“To breathe air with a lung you need more than a lung, you need neural circuitry that is sensitive to carbon dioxide,” said Michael Harris, a UAF…
Their experiment, the first to answer a scientific question about sickle cell disease using microfluidics engineering methods, may help future researchers…
While the flies initially prefer food with a sweet flavour, they quickly learn to opt for less sweet food sources that offer more calories and nutritional…
A team of researchers at the IRCM, supervised by Dr. Jacques Drouin, reprogrammed the identity of cells in the pituitary gland and identified critical…
To solve the acute, global problem of securing food resources for a continuously growing population, we must work constantly to increase the sustainability and…
But it’s not an easy job for E. coli and C. reinhardtii. The bacteria and microalgae, respectively, don’t like something in the bio-oil produced by fast…
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of South Florida; Duke University; Johns Hopkins University; the Brazilian National…
“We examined the evolution of avian retroviruses on the basis of their fossil remnants in the three avian genomes that have been completely sequenced,” write…
Research released today helps reveal how human and primate brains process and interpret facial expressions, and the role of facial mimicry in everything from…
As the implementation of green roofs increase, a University of Cincinnati pilot study examined which plants best thrive on the region’s roofs during the dry,…
Now, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine report on the regenerative process that enables rats to re-grow…
“Blood is quite a peculiar kind of juice“—that is what Mephisto knew, according to Goethe’s “Faust“. But if blood really is very special, then erythropoietin…
The findings, which were demonstrated in mice, highlight the unique properties of a subset of B cells that normally controls immune responses and limits…