A group of chemistry researchers from Lund University in Sweden and from the University of Lyon in France lie behind the study.On the borderline between…
Based upon a new catalyst, the disinfection process can be used to purify drinking water, sanitize surgical instruments and remove unwanted fingerprints from…
Although they are present almost everywhere, on land and sea, a group of related bacteria in the superphylum Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobia-Chlamydiae, or PVC,…
Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA Medical Center have identified a biological marker in the brains of those exhibiting…
Most abundant along Florida's west coast but also found on watery ledges and in crevices and caverns from North Carolina to Brazil, the red grouper excavates…
The findings, which appear during the week of January 18 in an online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide both new…
Misfolded proteins in nerve cells (neurons) are a common factor in all of these diseases. The Duke team has identified many new chemicals that activate a…
A research team led by Gaya Amarasinghe, an assistant professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, had previously solved the structure of a…
Researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have crafted a unique copper-free version…
The paper argues that the distributions of the major primate groups are correlated with Mesozoic tectonic features and that their respective ranges are…
The parasite that causes malignant malaria in humans has been detected in gorillas, along with two new species of malaria parasites, reports a study…
For more than a century, biologists have marveled at the highly cooperative nature of ants, bees and other social insects that work together to determine the…
The BoNT-detecting substances are antibodies –proteins made by the body to fight diseases–found in llamas. BoNT are about 100 billion times more toxic than…
Presently there is no malaria vaccine available, and these new findings support the development of a vaccine against the blood-stage of malaria. Malaria is an…
Ethylene (ethene, CH2=CH2) is a primary feedstock for chemical industry, and particularly for the production of plastics like polyethylene and polystyrene….
A major international study with leadership from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has identified 10 new gene variants associated with blood…