Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute ASTORIA, OREGON - A recent expedition led by Dr. Blair Thornton, holding Associate Professorships at both the University of Southampton and...
Credit: Toru Hisabori Based on a protein from E. coli, scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a fluorescent protein sensor able to provide...
Credit: Graphics: Paul Schreiber, KIT/IAM Wear has major impacts on economic efficiency or health. All movable parts are affected, examples being the bearing of a...
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Tiny protein structures called amyloids are key to understanding certain devastating age-related diseases. Aggregates, or sticky clumped-up amyloids, form..
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen is best known for his work on fodder preservation method, which earned him a Nobel Prize award in Chemistry in 1945. What...
Credit: VTT VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is helping to solve the global plastic waste problem. VTT develops in a project called PlastBug a...
Credit: Image by Anita Pagliazzo, as conceived and designed by Jogender Tushir-Singh. A University of Virginia School of Medicine researcher is developing a two-fisted, antibody-based...
Carnivorous plants are a wonder of evolution. They have developed astounding capabilities to attract, catch and digest insects and other living prey. For example, they...
Quebec City, August 30, 2018--An extract of camu camu--a fruit native to the Amazon--prevents obesity in mice fed a diet rich in sugar and fat,...
Credit: Hiroshi Fujii Ph.D., the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Shinshu University Japanese researchers have revealed for the first time that a specific protein plays a...
Blood vessels sustain health and proper functioning of our body. A multi-disciplinary team of scientists, led by prof. Peter Carmeliet (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer...
Scientists have discovered a link between certain genetic mutations, the aggressiveness of prostate cancer, risk of developing the disease and poorer survival rates of patients....
(European Geosciences Union) If governments don't act decisively by 2035 to fight climate change, humanity could cross a point of no return after which limiting...
Berkeley -- University of California, Berkeley, engineers have created a new way to remove contaminants from storm water, potentially addressing the needs of water-stressed communities...
Credit: Salk Instititute LA JOLLA--(August 30, 2018) Scientists at the Salk Institute found that mice lacking the biological clocks thought to be necessary for a...
