Month: June 2013

A toxin dangerous to humans may help E. coli fend off aquatic predators, enabling strains…

The keen vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a mysterious gap in a…

The propensity of proteins to stick together in large clumps — termed “protein aggregation” —…

By transferring four genes into mouse fibroblast cells, researchers have produced cells that resemble hematopoietic…

A new study shows that combining improved oyster restoration methods with limits on fishing in…

A new study of the genetic origins of dyslexia and other learning disabilities could allow…

Precisely what causes breast cancer recurrence has been poorly understood. But now a piece of…

Unagi, the sea-going Japanese freshwater eel, harbors a fluorescent protein that could serve as the…

Medical researchers have developed a new peptide, called NAP or Davunetide, that has the capacity…

With modern communication aids, users of electric powered wheelchairs can operate a PC and cellphone…