By building powerful phylogenetic trees, scientists are able to quickly identify similarities and differences between the make-up of many different organisms,…
Much of the blame for this situation, explained Qijing Zhang of Iowa State University, can be placed on a mechanism in the bacteria called the efflux pump. It…
The planet, called WASP-12b, is so close to its sunlike star that it is superheated to nearly 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit and stretched into a football shape by…
Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have created a novel technique that for the first time will allow the efficient production of a molecular…
The first two types of supernova are either hot, young giants that go out in a violent display as they collapse under their own weight, or old, dense, white…
Physicians at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have diagnosed a rare parasitic infection in six people who had consumed raw crayfish from…
Many disease-causing microbes carry pumps that expel antibiotics, making the bugs hard to kill with standard drugs.Ironically, these same pumps could be the…
A team of U.S. and Chinese physicists are zeroing in on critical effects at the heart of the latest high-temperature superconductors — but they’re using other…
In findings that contribute to efforts to design an AIDS vaccine, a team led by Scripps Research Institute scientists has determined the structure of an immune…
“Gustavo” is an imposing bull always in search of the best feeding grounds. The elephant seal weighing 3 tons and measuring 4 metres in length belongs to a…
Like striking an enemy camp directly as well as cutting off its source of food and other resources, the agent, called Oxi4503, poisons leukemia cells and…
That’s the conclusion of an international group of researchers, who have compiled the first comprehensive history of Arctic ice.For decades, scientists have…
Results indicate that the adjusted hazard ratio for all-cause mortality was three times higher in people with chronic insomnia (HR = 3.0) than in people…
Many people like to think they have discriminating tastes when it comes to romantic interests. An Indiana University study, however, found that men and women…
Brawls in the city center, homicide on railway platforms or suitcase bomb attacks; in Germany, such criminal acts do not really happen on a day to day basis,…
The study findings, constituting the results of the second phase of the Autism Genome Project (AGP), were published in Nature on June 9, 2010. The study also…
The search for time and cost effective as well as sensitive methods for bioanalytical assays is currently of great interest. At the center of Biofunctional…
During pregnancy, many women experience remission of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and uveitis. Now, scientists have described a biological…
The debilitating knee, hip, wrist or back pain associated with osteoarthritis (OA) is commonplace within diverse populations around the world and represents a…
California’s avocado industry is worth more than $320 million annually, and has about 6,000 growers farming more than 6,000 acres of land. Indeed, California…
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