“If you're interested in finding the truly ancient origins of the nervous system itself, we know where to look,” said Kenneth Kosik, Harriman Professor of…
These microbial partners provide beneficial aid in multiple ways – from helping digest food to the development of a healthy immune system. In a new study…
Scientists trying to understand why some people excel — whether as world-class athletes, virtuoso musicians, or top CEOs — have discovered that these…
Biochemists at the University of California, Riverside report a new role for vitamin C in plants: promoting the production of twins and even triplets in plant…
Science has known about plant hormones since Charles Darwin experimented with plant shoots and showed that the shoots bend toward the light as long as their…
Would you want to swallow a tablet that’s yellow rather than its usual white? Would this effect be harmless and would the drug still be efficient? Researchers…
The experiments will be reported at the “Model Organisms to Human Biology: Cancer Genetics” Meeting, June 17-20, 2012, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in…
Overturning two long-held misconceptions about oil production in algae, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory show that…
The study, which will be presented at the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia next August, showed that the compounds in stone fruits could be a weapon…
By contrast to traditional batch methods of production, where medications are produced one step at a time, Sipat makes continuous production possible while…
The element boron never fails to surprise chemists. It is so electron-deficient that it forms highly unusual compounds with other elements. For this reason,…
M cells act like “conveyor belts,” ingesting bacteria and transporting substances from the gut into Peyer's patches, specialized tissues resembling lymph nodes…
The lasso-shaped genetic snippets — they are called lariats — that the Brown team reports studying in the June 17 edition of Nature Structural & Molecular…
The collaborative research team led by Professor Tadashi ISA, Project Assistant Professor Masaharu KINOSHITA from The National Institute for Physiological…
“We identified, to our knowledge, the first bifidobacterial strain, Bifidobacterium dentium, that is capable of secreting large amounts of gamma-aminobutyric…
One of the difficulties doctors face in treating MM comes from the fact that cancer cells of this type start to develop resistance to the leading…
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