The images unravel some of the inner workings of the most efficient solar energy process on earth – photosynthesis. Inside a photosynthetic protein, the sun’s…
Iron dust, the gold of the oceans and rarest nutrient for most marine life, can be washed down by rivers or blown out to sea or – a surprising new study finds…
A new study published February 10 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences takes what may be the first detailed look at the problem of…
Iron dust, the rarest nutrient for most marine life, can be washed down by rivers or blown out to sea or–a surprising new study finds–float up from the sea…
Minutes after a two-story townhouse caught fire on Feb. 5, engines and crews raced to the townhouse to extinguish the fire and search for victims. No one was…
Building on plant virus research started more than 20 years ago, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis and his colleague at the Donald Danforth…
Thus the researchers uncovered a surprising feature of how DNA strand breaks can be handled. Their unexpected findings have important implications for the…
Those with compromised immune systems can, however, face serious complications. And the disease can also have serious effects on a human fetus if contracted by…
It has generally been assumed that many of these animals live only on seamounts, and are found nowhere else. However, two new research papers show that most…
Imagine you live in the suburbs of Chicago and you must commute hundreds of miles to a job in Iowa just to put food on the table. Magellanic penguins living on…
Taking advantage of this remarkable evolutionary conservation, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies transformed the fruit fly into a…
The University of Chicago’s Evalyn Gates calls the instrument “Einstein’s telescope.” The instrument is actually the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, which…
Ever since the “barreleye” fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that it’s tubular eyes are very good at…
They’ve created an immune-system “atlas” that will improve doctors’ ability to monitor transplanted organs and shed light on the mechanisms of gradual,…
Discovering the different genes that contribute to a complex disease is like searching in the proverbial haystack for an unknown number of needles–some much…
The work with worms is opening a new avenue of exploration in the search for treatments against autoimmune diseases like diabetes and asthma, where the body…
“There are currently no drugs to target the proteins that trigger melanoma,” said Gavin Robertson, associate professor of pharmacology, pathology and…
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Yale University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, have…
Many of those challenges are purely scientific, including the quest to clarify the true nature of dark matter and dark energy; the search for extra-terrestrial…
Themed “Ask the ultimate Power in Imaging”, Siemens Healthcare will present its latest imaging innovations at the European Congress of Radiology 2009 (ECR…