Month: June 2015

A research team’s discovery of new information about how plants synthesize carotenoids, precursors for vitamin…

The effort to secure a stable, domestic source of a critical medical isotope has reached…

Scientists have established conclusively that an activating protein, called “Rhes,” plays a pivotal role in…

It has long been known that zinc, an essential trace element, is passed to infants…

A soil microbe that mobilizes an ‘iron shield’ to block the uptake of toxic arsenic…

A strain of bacteria that ‘breathes’ uranium may hold the key to cleaning up polluted…

Recent genomic research has prompted a petition that calls for the reclassification of African elephants…

A decline in bumble bee populations in Europe and North America has been documented in…

From heat waves to damaged crops to asthma in children, climate change is a major…

One way to reduce the nation’s number of opioid-related deaths, states an American drug policy…