Month: January 2022

Protein assembly is essential for the formation of ordered biological structures, but imagine engineering one! This is exactly what researchers ...

HANOVER, N.H. – January 5, 2022 – Evidence arguing for a “whiff of oxygen” before the Earth’s Great Oxygenation Event ...

Focusing on a specific vineyard in the Chateauneuf-du-Pape region in the Southern part of France, plant pathologists spent 8 years ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers in the Chemistry Division apply their knowledge of biology in conjunction with materials ...

Two X chromosomes are actually one too many. Female mammalian cells hence switch off one of them – but only ...

Colonizing Mars is no longer solely the work of science fiction but a potential future option for people who desire ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Immunologists have long been baffled by LPS, the bacterial lipopolysaccharide that helps form the cell walls of ...

WASHINGTON — A new way to evaluate the quality of kidneys before transplantation could one day help increase the number ...

Evidence demonstrates a close connection between the fraction of organic matter buried in sediments and changes in supernovae occurrence. This ...

Scientists led by Dr. Andrés Hidalgo at the Centro Nacional de Investigadores Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have discovered that circulating neutrophils—a type ...

Scientists have found evidence that a type of the antibiotic resistant superbug MRSA arose in nature long before the use ...

VANCOUVER—The first comprehensive analysis of viral horizontal gene transfer (HGT) illustrates the extent to which viruses pick up genes from ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Researchers from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry and their colleagues have discovered details of how ...

During long portions of the past 2.4 billion years, the Earth may have been more  inhospitable to life than scientists previously ...

It may be hard to remember in winter, but July 2021 was the hottest month ever documented. In the USA, ...

By looking at the exposure to the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides/suum in Nothern Europe (Norway, Denmark and Estonia), the study ...

The Link between Electrical Voltage and Brain Flexibility Credit: Tel Aviv University The Link between Electrical Voltage and Brain Flexibility ...

LA JOLLA—(January 4, 2022) The discovery of insulin 100 years ago opened a door that would lead to life and ...

A joint Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority studyCredit: Ya’akov Billig, The Israel Antiquities Authority. A joint Tel ...

The microbes that live inside our mouths, collectively known as the oral microbiome, impact our overall health in many ways ...