This is due to a combination of low GI (glycemic index) and certain type of indigestible carbohydrates that occur in certain grain products. The findings are…
For the first time doctors and veterinarians will be able to test clinical samples from their patients for the presence of the genes for antibiotic resistance…
In work originating from the Bavarian Research Cooperation Prions (FORPRION), which ended in 2007, a team led by the scientist Prof. Dr. Christine Leib-Mösch…
Behind the sailor’s lore of fearsome battles between sperm whale and giant squid lies a deep question of evolution: How did these leviathans develop the…
“We have not proven a causal relationship between any infectious agent and CCD,” the researchers report in today’s (Sept. 6) issue of Science Express online….
Today, the World Wide Web Consortium completed an important link between Semantic Web and microformats communities. With “Gleaning Resource Descriptions from…
The team has recently published two structural biology articles related to RecA family recombinases. One paper is to be published in the online, open-access…
University of Arizona astronomers who collaborated in the observations say that neon could show which stars retain their surrounding dust-and-gas disks needed…
This surprising result comes from a study at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute of the activity of almost 14,000 genes in 270 DNA samples collected for the…
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered in a single pass about a dozen otherwise invisible galaxies halfway across the Universe. The…
The research project, whose results will appear in the next issue of the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, also concludes that the…
A fossilized whale skeleton excavated 20 years ago amid the stench and noise of a seabird and elephant seal rookery on California’s Año Nuevo Island turns out…
The research project, whose results will appear in the next issue of the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, also concludes that the…
The £1.1 billion (Euro 1.5bn) Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will be around 200 times bigger and 100,000 times more powerful than the famous…
The production of melanin is an important protective reaction that gives us a sunburn, for instance. In invertebrate animals it has long been observed that…
With this takeaway strategy the crabs maximise their food uptake and keep competing crabs at a distance, says Dutch researcher Isabel Smallegange. Food is not…
This week, an astronomy and space research class at the Alternative Secondary School of Economics in Budapest, Hungary, chose HiRISE’s “student image of the…
The jury is in: microRNAs can cause tumors to metastasize. These tiny molecules fine-tune protein production and play a powerful role in biological processes…
A research team led by San Jose State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara has discovered forests of a species of kelp previously thought…
Researchers of the Irkutsk State University and Institutes of the Earth’s Crust and Geochemistry (Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences) have recently…
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