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Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A novel method to improve the high-yield, high-purity, high-activity purification of complex proteins by 10-...

CNIC scientists discover an essential mechanism in the immune response

Credit: CNIC Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) have discovered that the transcriptional regulator CTCF...

Gaze direction affects sensitivity to sounds

Listening to something while looking in a different direction can slow down reaction times while the brain works harder to...

Ancient fungi could help Canada’s future northern forests

Credit: UBC Okanagan As Canada's vast boreal and tundra ecosystems experience dramatic warming due to climate change, trees are rapidly...

Flowers’ genome duplication contributes to their spectacular diversity

The evolution of plants has been punctuated by major innovations, none more striking among living plants than the flower. Flowering...

Know your enemy: Exposing threatened species to predators improves evasive behaviors

Credit: Hugh McGregor A study of burrowing bettongs in the Australian desert has shown for the first time that exposing...

International ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Symposium 2017

(Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University) The International ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Symposium 2017 will be held on Aug....

A whole-genome sequenced rice mutant resource for the study of biofuel feedstocks

Credit: Guotian Li and Rashmi Jain/Berkeley Lab Rice is a staple food for over half of the world's population and...

Small-molecule therapeutic boosts spatial memory and motor function in Rett syndrome mice

New research into Rett syndrome therapeutics suggests that a small molecule already reported to improve respiratory problems associated with the...

Researchers make significant progress in engineering digestive system tissues

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have reached important milestones in their quest to engineer...

Powerful new technique can clone thousands of genes at once

Credit: Jennifer E. Fairman/Johns Hopkins University Scientists at Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, the University of Trento in Italy, and Harvard Medical...

‘Nanolock’ detects cancer mutation; could lead to early diagnoses, personalized therapies

The moment when healthy cells turn into cancer cells is a critical point. And if caught early enough, many cancers...

The comeback kid — black phosphorus and its new potential

When it was discovered over a century ago, black phosphorus was considered relatively useless. Over the past five years, however,...

Quantum dots make the leap from TVs to antibacterial eye drops

Quantum dots are transforming electronic displays on TVs and tablets. But now, one group reports in ACS Nano that these...

Allen Discovery Center for Human Brain Evolution announced $10 million grant will create Center to understand how the human brain evolved and what makes it unique

Credit: Boston Children's Hospital The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group announced today the creation of an Allen Discovery Center for...

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group announces Allen Discovery Center at UW Medicine

Credit: Jay Shendure The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group announced today the creation of an Allen Discovery Center for Cell...

Alcohol consumption putting vast majority of Europeans at risk of digestive cancers

Credit: UEG (Vienna, 4 July, 2017) Citizens across the EU are consuming an average of 2 alcoholic drinks per day,...

Advance directive and medical power of attorney are often missing

COLOGNE. For most patients in intensive care, the patient records contain neither an advance directive nor a medical power of...

Combining antibiotics proves more effective against common infection

The common and highly resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium is a fatal threat to weakened and ill patients. A new study...

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