PHILADELPHIA -- Despite the success of immunotherapies based on blocking the programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) receptor protein in metastatic melanoma patients, more than half...
Credit: Xin Zou/Penn State A nanoscale product of human cells that was once considered junk is now known to play an important role in intercellular...
Credit: IBS Researchers at the Center for Genomic Engineering, within the Institute of Basic Science (IBS) proved the accuracy of a recently developed gene editing...
Credit: CRAG Each year, fungal infections destroy at least 125 million tons of the world's five most important crops -rice, wheat, maize, soybeans and potatoes-...
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Crystallization is a very basic chemical process: School children can witness it with their own eyes. But scientists had not,...
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science One of the mysteries of the living body is the movement of cells - not just in the blood, but...
WASHINGTON (April 10, 2017) -- Researchers from the George Washington University (GW), the University of Perugia, and the University of Rome have discovered a potential...
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Like all food crops, the faba, or fava, bean - a nutritious part of many the diet of many cultures...
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science If you get up in the morning feeling energetic and clearheaded, you can thank your liver for manufacturing glucose before...
Credit: Hilary Dugan (Millbrook, NY) North America's freshwater lakes are getting saltier due to development and exposure to road salt. A study of 371 lakes...
Food purists may have cause to celebrate thanks to a recent international study directed by the University of British Columbia. The study, which evaluated the...
Credit: Kenji Suetsugu Two new species of parasitic plants have been discovered on the main island of Okinawa, Japan. The discovery was made by Project...
For certain frequencies of short-wave infrared light, most biological tissues are nearly as transparent as glass. Now, researchers have made tiny particles that can be...
Credit: Th. Splettstösser/HZB The experiments took place at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) free-electron laser in California as well as the BESSY II synchrotron...
Credit: TU Wien Diamonds with minute flaws could play a crucial role in the future of quantum technology. For some time now, researchers at TU...
