The scientific discovery could one day serve as the foundation for creating a wide range of consumer products from biorenewable carbon feedstocks, as opposed…
When most people envision coral, they typically think of shallow-water reef-building corals found along beaches and tropical nearshore habitats. These…
In article appearing in October in the journal The Bryologist, a team of researchers from Austria, Norway, Spain and the United States report the highest…
Scientists from the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany) were successful in improving a fabrication process for Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) probe…
Groundbreaking research into fingerprint detection developed at the University of Leicester now has an industrial application, thanks to a new invention by the…
In an article published in the journal Cell, Marc Therrien's team explains the recent discovery of a protein complex that controls the RAS/MAPK signalling…
By the age of five, most people have been exposed to the virus, called reovirus. For some, it can trigger brief episodes of coughing or diarrhea while many…
These motor skills are learned in one part of the brain, whereas classroom instruction and information read in a book are acquired in another area of the…
This self-destructive tendency can be a very good thing, as when dangerous precancerous cells are permitted to kill themselves, but it can also go horribly…
Using cutting-edge methods to peer into the hidden genetic underpinnings of the disabling and disfiguring disease, the research, published in Nature Genetics,…
Biologists at Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences have discovered that a change in membrane voltage in newly identified “instructor cells” can cause…
Single cells build up a tissue by communicating with their environment and with other cells, thereby receiving instructions on whether to divide, change shape…
A new Penn study, published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, has found and tested in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease a class of drug that is…
The LIA group has submitted a patent application for the design of this logical DNA sensor. These sensors are able to represent logical implications (or…
“Never have so many species from a single genus, nor even from a single family, been described in one single study”, Anselmo Peñas, lead author of the…
Scientists at the University of Michigan Heath System and their collaborators have found four new DNA “hotspots” that may one day help guide new treatments for…
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