Eradicating smallpox was one of the greatest human accomplishments of the 20th century, but new research shows initiatives of this kind are not as good a use…
Using a method they developed to watch moment to moment as they move a molecule to precise sites inside live human cells, Johns Hopkins scientists are closer…
In a new study published in the journal Systematic Biology, a model simulating the distributions of two imaginary species with identical environmental…
Princeton University scientists have developed a new way to identify the hidden genetic material responsible for complex traits, a breakthrough they believe…
The finding upends conventional notions of how pathogens attack and could point the way to new approaches to fighting disease not only in plants but also in…
A team of scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a network of genes that initiate and manage cilia formation….
Two research studies funded by grants from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) examined the role of a gene…
The antibiotic, rapamycin, is used on drug-eluting stents implanted during angioplasty because it is effective in preventing restenosis (re-narrowing or…
Most drugs are designed to act on proteins that somehow malfunction in ways that lead to damage and disease in the body. The active ingredient in these…
In order to produce hydrogen gas in a way that is climate neutral, bacteria are added to forestry or household waste, using a method similar to biogas…
Using an ephemeral supercomputer made up of computers from across the world, the mpiBLAST computational tool used by the researchers took only 12 hours instead…
The University of Texas at Austin scientists exploited the fact that all life on Earth shares common ancestry, and therefore shares sets of genes.They found…
It's illegal for health products with medical formulations to be accepted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration without tests on animals — a situation that…
Plants produce sugar during photosynthesis. Water is released into the environment in the form of water vapor. This is the responsibility of tiny “valves” on…
One such “pioneer species,” Ctenopelta porifera, appears to have traveled over 300 kilometers to settle at the site on the underwater mountain range known as…
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have solved the decade-old mystery of why human embryonic stem cells are so difficult to culture in the…
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