Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists have discovered that bacterial communication could have a significant…
Month: October 2011
Feeding the world while protecting the planet: Global plan for sustainable agriculture
An international team of researchers from Canada, the US, Sweden and Germany has come up…
Education research shows LGBTQ-identified students at higher risk than straight-identified students
New research findings highlight differences between LGBTQ- and straight-identified youth in health outcomes and educational…
Vitamin D crucial in human immune response to tuberculosis, scientists find
A team of scientists has found that vitamin D plays an essential role in the…
Researchers make older beta cells act young again
Researchers have identified a pathway responsible for the age-related decline of insulin-producing beta cells, and…
Wet and mild: Researchers take the temperature of Mars’ past
Researchers have directly determined the surface temperature of early Mars for the first time, providing…
Fuel and plastics production could be made more energy efficient and cost effective
Researchers have overcome a major hurdle in the quest to design a specialized type of…
Clean correction of a patient’s genetic mutation: New gene therapy methods accurately correct mutation in patient’s stem cells
For the first time, scientists have cleanly corrected a gene mutation in a patient’s stem…
Understanding the constraints of evolution provides roadmap to mammalian biology
Researchers produced a high-resolution genomic map of more than 3.5 million constrained elements that account…
New molecular target for diabetes treatment discovered
Researchers have identified a key molecular pathway responsible for the natural decrease in the proliferation…