Credit: GU FRANKFURT. Making valuable products, such as fuels, synthetic materials or pharmaceuticals, from renewable raw materials is to date not efficient enough because the...
Credit: Image by Benjamin Sovacool Lack of consumer engagement, insufficient information, and inadequate attention to vulnerability has slowed down the UK rollout of energy smart...
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Mountain climbers and endurance athletes are not the only ones to benefit from altitude training - that is, learning to...
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science To the reasons that chemotherapy sometimes does not work, we can now add one more: bacteria. In a study published...
Credit: The Roslin Institute Fresh insights into the genetic code of sheep could aid breeding programmes to improve their health and productivity. Scientists have mapped...
The critical size for schoolchildren is roughly a diameter of 40 mm, as a hard sugar ball of this size is still too big to...
Montreal, Sept. 18, 2017 - Researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) have discovered a way to slow viral replication in the...
Credit: Pierre Maechler / UNIGE Diabetes is characterised by a deficiency of insulin. The opposite is the case in congenital hyperinsulinism: patients produce the hormone...
Credit: Akemi Takade, Kyushu University, Japan Bacteria release membrane-derived vesicles (MVs), which are small particles that can transport virulence factors to neighbouring bacteria or to...
Credit: Gil-Soo Han/Rutgers University-New Brunswick It had already been known that the enzyme known as phosphatidic acid phosphatase plays a crucial role in regulating the...
Credit: Jonson et al 2017 Since the late 1990s the share of diesel cars in the EU has risen to around 50% in the fleet,...
Painful side effects from cancer medicines could be tackled with a drug that eases the effects of jetlag, research suggests. The drug - known as...
Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have found that thirdhand-smoke (THS) exposure has a significant effect...
About 13 years ago, Northeastern professor Jonathan Tilly, a reproductive biologist, made a discovery that challenged everything scientists thought they knew about female reproduction. The...
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 15, 2017) - A group of steroid hormones could provide new insight into the bone...
