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Credit: Photo: Lukas Fasbender The Venus flytrap captures insects for more than just nutritional purposes: A research team lead by Prof. Dr. Heinz Rennenberg and...

The role of size in development of mucosal liposome-lipopeptide vaccine

Credit: Khairunnisa A. Ghaffar et al , Bentham Science Publishers Group A Streptococcus (GAS), or Streptococcus pyogenes is an exclusivel y human Gram-positive pathogenic bacteria....

VTT develops raw materials for meatballs and falafel from mealworms and crickets

Credit: VTT VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed food ingredients from mealworms and crickets which, due to their promising structure and flavour, have...

New mouse model helps in search for better COPD and CF treatments

Credit: Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Shuto Researchers from Kumamoto University, Japan have succeeded in producing a mouse model that faithfully reproduces the pathologies of two intractable...

Melting solid below the freezing point

Credit: Chuanlong Lin and Guoyin Shen, Carnegie Institution Phase transitions surround us--for instance, liquid water changes to ice when frozen and to steam when boiled....

Cervical cancer mortality rates may be underestimated

A new analysis reveals that for most women, the risk of dying from cervical cancer is higher than previously thought. Unlike prior estimates that also...

E-cigarettes are expanding tobacco product use among youth

E-cigarettes - thought by some to be responsible for a decline in youth cigarette smoking - are actually attracting a new population of adolescents who...

Cervical cancer death rates higher among older and black women

A woman's risk of dying of cervical cancer is higher than long believed, particularly among older and black women, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of...

Novel regulatory mechanism controls how plants defend themselves against pathogens

Credit: The Sainsbury Laboratory Together with collaborators in Austria, scientists at The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) in Norwich (UK) are unravelling the complex mechanisms underlying plants'...

Bodyguards in the gut have a chemical weapon

Credit: Yongqi Shao, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Beneficial bacteria in the gut of moth larvae produce an antimicrobial agent that kills competing bacteria which otherwise...

Bodywide immune response important for fighting cancer, Stanford researchers say

Fighting off cancer requires the concerted efforts of immune molecules throughout the body, rather than just in the tumor itself, according to a new study...

Roots of related genetic diseases found in cell powerhouses

Scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered the mechanisms behind a genetic change known to cause a set of related diseases. A new study,...

Jumbled chromosomes may dampen the immune response to tumors

How well a tumor responds to immunotherapy may depend in part on whether its chromosomes are intact or in a state of disarray, a new...

HPV prevalence rates among US men, vaccination coverage

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, as well as a cause of various cancers, and a...

New low-cost technique converts bulk alloys to oxide nanowires