You can't see them, or smell them or taste them. They can be in our water and in our food, multiplying so rapidly that conventional testing methods for…
New findings by neurobiologists at the University of Washington suggest that both patterns are important. The researchers found that bigger-bodied social wasps…
Scientists at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School are a step closer to treating, and perhaps preventing, muscle damage caused by neurodegenerative…
All living things – humans, animals, plants, microbes – are influenced by circadian rhythms, which are physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a…
“We need to come up with new targets for antibacterial agents,” said Indiana University Bloomington biochemist David Giedroc, who led the project. “Staph is…
When a forensic agent dusts a surface with powder or exposes it to the vapors of an iodine chamber, mystery fans know what is going on: This is how latent…
One common way of studying the role of genes in cells is to remove a gene and investigate the effect of the loss. Genes are very similar in both yeast and…
Atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries is associated with a risk of future heart disease, and it is therefore important to find risk markers for…
The results are published in an article in the scientific journal Nature Communications.More and more bacteria are becoming resistant to our common…
Previous studies have shown that anti-depressants make new brain cells, however, until now it was not known how they did it. In a study to be published in the…
The study focuses on the evolution of “eusociality,” a system of collective living in which most members of a female-centric colony forego their reproductive…
A team of researchers, led by scientists from Rockefeller University, for the first time has carried out a comprehensive, systematic evaluation of the…
In research published in the March 17 online edition of the journal PLoS Genetics, Tufts University biologist Catherine Freudenreich, and then-graduate student…
Methylmercury, a potent human neurotoxin, appears in the environment when certain naturally occurring bacteria transform inorganic mercury into its more toxic…
A new discovery published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) promises to help physicians identify patients most likely to benefit from breast…
Osteosarcoma is aggressive and its treatment outlook has not changed significantly over the last 20 years. Treatment consists of a combination of toxic…
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