Credit: Lehigh University Professor Nelson Tansu of Lehigh University's P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science has been named a Fellow of the National...
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2016 -- Vanilla is more than a standby ice cream flavor. It's used to flavor approximately 18,000...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of up to...
Credit: Springer Soil can be beautiful, odiferous, slimy or sublime. It provides simple pleasures, such as its rich earthy scent after warm rain or the...
Credit: Earlham Institute RenSeq (1) is the method to sequence Resistance (R) genes that confer disease resistance in plants. Each plant typically carries hundreds of...
Wheat, one of the most widely consumed grains in the world, contains gluten, a mixture of proteins that can be toxic for people with coeliac...
Credit: Daniel Janies The Zika virus remains a mystery. Isolated from macaque monkeys in the Ziika Forest in Uganda in 1947, the virus was shown...
FRANKFURT. Nature often produces a whole weaponry of active ingredients to ensure it is well prepared for any scenario that might occur. Pharmacists and medical...
(Umea University) The first clinical study to investigate if herpes virus drugs can have an effect on fundamental Alzheimer's disease processes has been launched at...
Cleveland, Ohio . . . Scientists have named two new clades, or tribes, of horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) based on fossils collected from the United States...
Deficiency of vitamin B1 (thiamine) in wildlife is previously known as a problem among certain species within relatively limited geographical areas. Now, researchers at Stockholm...
Credit: Amanda Petford-Long/Argonne National Laboratory Most materials, when viewed at the atomic level, come in one of two types. Some materials, like table salt, are...
Credit: UNIST Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. Therefore, a fast and reliable diagnosis of heart attack is...
A team of UCLA bioengineers has demonstrated that its technology may go a long way toward overcoming the challenges of treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia,...
Talking hands-free on a mobile phone while driving is just as distracting as a conversation using a hand-held phone, despite one being illegal and the...
