The behavior of water molecules as they contact biological substances has long puzzled scientists.The first few layers of interfacial water can display complex…
Information processing in the brain relies on the coordinated activity between populations of different types of neurons, each with distinct electrical…
In a bed-side to bench approach, researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report Sept. 26 in Nature Medicine that pharmacological…
The new approach allows scientists to more accurately reproduce muscle firing order, making it a valuable research tool. The investigators, from Stanford's…
The study, published online by the journal Nature, demonstrates that proteins issuing stop and start commands to a cancer gene – known as epigenetic “reader”…
The appearance of a spot of light on the retina causes sudden activation of millions of neurons in the brain within tenths of milliseconds. At the first…
Feeling a little sluggish and having trouble concentrating? Hormones might be to blame according to new research from Concordia University published in the…
As it is made of 100% natural fibres, it is highly absorbent to disinfectant solution; it is also fully biodegradable and therefore avoids the high disposal…
But if we zoom in on the building bricks of the body, our cells, stress and its causes are defined somewhat differently. Stress can arise at the cellular level…
This week, an international team of researchers led by a faculty member from the University of Colorado at Boulder published evidence that three genes in…
Each year more than 400 million people contract malaria, and more than one million, mostly children, die from the disease. The most lethal form of malaria is…
Using imaging tools which enable investigation of processes in living organisms, Dr. Volker Siffrin and Professor Dr. Frauke Zipp (formerly Max Delbrück…
Prof. Herrera said: “No one has paid much attention to the corollas, collections of petals on a flower, when they shrivel. Their job is done, so it's no…
The collaborative team of researchers was led by Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, PhD, Director of the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University…
Nearly 5 percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and scientists are only beginning to understand the role of the rest of the “non-coding” genome. Among…
The concept of converting renewable raw materials so cleverly that the same process simultaneously produces both energy and industrially desirable chemicals…
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