Provocative prions may protect yeast cells from stress
Credit: From Chernova et al Cell Reports (2017). Prions have a notorious reputation. They cause neurodegenerative disease, namely mad cow/Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. And the way these...
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Noninvasive ultrasound pulses used to precisely tweak rat brain activity
Credit: Raag Airan Biomedical engineers at Johns Hopkins report they have worked out a noninvasive way to release and deliver concentrated amounts of a drug...
Bacterial discovery solves 20-year-old molecular paleontology mystery
A fatty molecule thought to be unique to flowering plants has turned up in bacteria skimmed from the Adriatic Sea. The surprising finding solves a...
In African ‘fairy circles,’ a template for nature’s many patterns
Credit: Photo by Jen Guyton, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Be it the Mima mounds of Washington state or the famous "fairy circles" of...
Cookware made with scrap metal contaminates food
Credit: Occupational Knowledge International SAN FRANCISCO - Aluminum cookware made from scrap metal in countries around the world poses a serious and previously unrecognized health...
UNIST embarks on journey to develop ultrafast train
Credit: UNIST Earlier today, UNIST has signed a multi-year strategic partnership agreement with seven research institutes to accelerate the realization of government's new plan to...
Limited window to change commuting habits
San Antonio, Texas - Over 128 million daily commuters in the U.S. and 75% report they drive alone. From improving traffic flow to air quality,...
Scientists develop first catalysed reaction using iron salts
Credit: University of Huddersfield SCIENTISTS at the University of Huddersfield have developed a new chemical reaction that is catalysed using simple iron salts - an...
The Large Hadron Collider — the greatest adventure in town
Credit: World Scientific, 2017 Particle Physics usually only hits the headlines when a new particle is discovered or some similar breakthrough. The principal reaction is...
New ‘immunoprofiler’ initiative will advance drug discovery
UC San Francisco scientists have formed an innovative research alliance with three global pharmaceutical companies to improve patients' responses to cancer immunotherapy and to increase...
Electrocatalysis can advance green transition
Credit: Jakob Kibsgaard, DTU Physics The world population is growing, as is energy demand, and we have long been able to see the consequences of...
A new invisibility cloak to conceal objects in diffusive atmospheres is devised
As Carlos GarcÃa-Meca of the UPV's Centre for Nanophotonic Technology explained, diffusive environments are those in which the light is not propagated in a straight...
Discovered one of the brightest distant galaxies so far known
Credit: Yiping Shu (NAOC) and Gabi Perez (SMM/IAC). An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de AstrofÃsica de Canarias (IAC) and the University...
Snap, digest, respire
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....
