Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have determined why that happens. Their research shows that HIV protease inhibitors…
New findings by civil engineering researchers in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering shows that treating municipal wastewater…
For biological and biomedical research, science depends on animal experiments. The understanding of complex processes in the body such as, for example, the…
“Processors and consumers will benefit from the speed and sensitivity of the new test's results,” said Azlin Mustapha, associate professor of food science in…
Boston University researchers have developed a simple diagnostic tool that can quickly identify dangerous viruses like Ebola and Marburg. The biosensor, which…
For decades, geologists have looked at these water droplets — called fluid inclusions — and wondered whether microbes could be extracted from them. Fluid…
Researchers from the University of California, Davis, and Utah State University report on genomic analysis of these strains in the November 2010 issue of the…
Scientists studying the daily activity cycle in plants – known as circadian rhythms – have discovered a finely tuned process that enables the plant's genes to…
From fad diets to exercise programs, Americans continue to fight the battle of the bulge. Now they'll have help from recent Tel Aviv University research that…
Johns Hopkins Children's Center scientists have discovered that high blood levels of a protein commonly found in the central nervous system can predict brain…
The link between sleeping and obesity is drawn tighter as a new research published online in the FASEB Journal…
A study to be published as the “Paper of the Week” in the Journal of Biological Chemistry this December details how zinc, an element fundamental to cell…
The director of the team, Mr Joxerra Aihartza, took the first steps when he began drawing up a complete atlas of the distribution of bat species in the…
Many of these genes are also known to act on body weight regulation or biological pathways related to fat metabolism. This large new study of more than 100,000…
The DNA molecule — the elegant, twin-stranded necklace of life in all cells — gets broken and repaired all the time. Breaks are caused by the body's metabolic…
Watching how the cells behave as they divide and invade surrounding tissue will help physicians better understand how human cancers act in the body. The new…