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Absent pheromones turn flies into lusty Lotharios
In fact, they produced bugs so irresistible that normal male fruit flies attempted to mate with pheromone-free males and even females from a different…
Arctic Now Traps 25 Percent of World’s Carbon — But That Could Change
In their review paper, David McGuire of the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and his colleagues show that the Arctic has been a…
ID3 provides career counseling for blood progenitors, driving the creation of gamma-delta T cells
Like an unusually forceful career counselor, the Id3 protein decides the fate of a given white blood cell precursor, according to researchers at Fox Chase…
Discovery of enzyme structure points way to creating less toxic anti-HIV drugs
Their work was published this week in Cell. “Many anti-HIV drugs are designed to stop the process of DNA replication,” says Dr. Whitney Yin, assistant…
Tiny test tube experiment shows reaction of melting materials at the nano scale
The nano-scale test tube is so small that a high-power electron microscope was required to see the experiment.Made from a thin shell of carbon, the test tube…
SCID kids leading healthy, normal lives 25 years after 'Bubble Boy'
Since David's death however, researchers have refined treatment options for children with SCID, and today, as scientists at Duke University Medical Center…
