Oxygen-consuming organisms obtain energy through cellular respiration, which is the transformation of carbohydrates and oxygen into carbon dioxide and water….
Every second, the brain's nerve cells exchange many billions of synaptic impulses. Two kinds of synapses ensure that this flow of data is regulated: Excitatory…
China needs to change where it sites its nature reserves and steer people out of remote rural villages toward cities to protect its valuable but threatened…
Researchers with the UCLA Department of Radiation Oncology at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center also found for the first time that these glioma stem…
An astounding 50% of human DNA comprises both active transposon elements and the decaying remains of former transposons that were active thousands to millions…
Led by CU-Boulder Assistant Professor Gia Voeltz and her team in collaboration with the UC-Davis team led by Professor Jodi Nunnari, the researchers analyzed…
In a joint study, scientists from the California and Florida campuses of The Scripps Research Institute have shown that changes in a protein's structure can…
One of the holy grails in diabetes research is to discover molecules that stimulate beta cell growth and to find drugs that target these molecules. Now,…
Details of the process, which can be improved and patented, are published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The…
Water softening techniques are very effective for removing minerals such as calcium and magnesium, which occur as positively-charged ions in “hard” water. But…
Approval last week by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clears the path for nationwide use of tools that show the greatest specificity in estimating the…
Molecular biologists from the University of Zurich have now identified a mechanism of Helicobacter pylori that damages the DNA of cells in the gastric mucosa…
A protein that helps maintain mouse stem cell pluripotency has been identified by researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center. The finding, published in the…
Hiroyuki Muto and colleagues at Japan’s Toyohashi University of Technology (Toyohashi Tech) have developed an innovative method for producing CNT (carbon…
Cell communication is essential for the development of any organism. Scientists know that cells have the power to “talk” to one another, sending signals…
It is now widely accepted that the species Homo sapiens originated in Africa and eventually spread throughout the world. But did those early humans interbreed…
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