Specially sourced argon may soon help reveal secrets about the universe’s dark matter. University of Houston Researchers to Create Facility for Mining Exceptionally Pure Argon from Colorado Site A deposit…
Inside embryonic cells, specific proteins control the rate at which genetic information is transcribed from DNA to messenger RNA — a crucial regulatory step before proteins are created. Then, organs…
Casey D. Morrow, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham previously developed a microbiome “fingerprint” method called WSS that identifies single strains of particular gut bacteria, through…
Are you lacking in energy? Are you sick of feeling tired all the time? Have you been diagnosed with some form of anemia? If you answered any of the previous…
Dying stars’ cocoons may explain fast blue optical transients. In this animation, a cocoon surrounds the jet of a collapsing star. As this cocoon escapes the star, it cools —…
In the gym, you are not just pumping iron, you are oxygenating muscle cells which keeps those muscles healthy, strong and growing — a process called hypertrophy, or an increase…
The immune system remembers. Often this memory, primed by past encounters with threats like bacteria or viruses, is an asset. But when that memory is sparked by internal drivers, like…
An international team of researchers has identified DNA mutations in a gene that senses viral RNA, as a cause of the autoimmune disease lupus, with the finding paving the way…
Artist Impression of a superconducting chip. Credit: TU Delft Associate professor Mazhar Ali and his research group at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have discovered one-way superconductivity without magnetic…
A new type of silver coating (illustrated above) could prevent bacteria from adhering to medical devices. Credit: Hossein Yazdani-Ahmadabadi According to folklore, silver bullets kill werewolves, but in the real…
