Blue-green algae is causing havoc in Midwestern lakes saturated with agricultural run-off, but researchers in a northwest Ohio lab are using supercomputers to…
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the world**. These deaths are mainly caused by the hardening and subsequent blockage of blood vessels…
A group led by Domenico Pratico, professor of pharmacology and microbiology and immunology at Temple, discovered the presence of the protein, called…
Neal Devaraj, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and Itay Budin, a graduate student at Harvard University, report…
The ability to visualize these small, fast-changing voltage differences between the interior and exterior of neurons – known as transmembrane potential – is…
The Bren School-based authors of a study published Jan. 20 in the journal PLoS ONE have observed toxicity to marine organisms resulting from exposure to a…
In August 2010, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside discovered a tiny fairyfly wasp in upstate New York that had never been seen in the…
The findings appear in the current edition of the journal PLoS Biology.”Within our cells, we have communicating compartments called vesicles (a bubble-like…
Sandia chemist Tina Nenoff heads a team of researchers focused on removal of radioactive iodine from spent nuclear fuel. They identified a metal-organic…
A team led by Dr Paul Clarke in the Department of Chemistry at York have re-created a process which could have occurred in the prebiotic world.Working with…
The origin of the 'speed gene' (C type myostatin gene variant) was revealed by analysing DNA from hundreds of horses, including DNA extracted from the skeletal…
Research led by New York University biologists shows that the cavefish are an example of convergent evolution, with several populations repeatedly, and…
MRSA can occur in the environment and in raw meat products, and is estimated to cause around 185,000 cases of food poisoning each year. The bacteria can also…
The mineral barite was examined to understand mineral growth and dissolution generally, but also because it is the dominant scale-forming mineral that…
A recent Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) study published in the journal Science investigating the molecular structure and function of an essential plant…
The technique works by replacing a malfunctioning gene in the eye with a normal working copy that supplies a protein necessary for light-sensitive cells in the…
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