21+ hour, 45+ min ago   (84+ words) When forensic investigators recover human remains, one of the first and most fundamental questions they must answer is simple to ask but often difficult to answer: was this person male or female? A new study published in the International Journal…...

22+ hour, 2+ min ago   (55+ words) Soluble magnesium composites are emerging as one of the most intriguing materials of the decade, promising tools that dissolve on command downhole in oil and gas wells, and implants that quietly disappear inside the human body once their work is…...

22+ hour, 8+ min ago   (75+ words) A new comprehensive review published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research surveys one of the most quietly promising corners of nanomedicine: carbon dots, nanoscale specks of carbon that are showing remarkable ability to kill bacteria and dismantle the sticky biofilms…...

22+ hour, 12+ min ago   (667+ words) For decades, microbiologists have relied on a single, seemingly unremarkable plate of agar to catch two of the world’s most consequential waterborne pathogens. Thiosulfate citrate bile salts sucrose, or TCBS, agar is the workhorse selective medium behind the presumptive isolation…...

22+ hour, 12+ min ago   (521+ words) Bacteria are famous for forming patterns, from the concentric rings of Proteus colonies to the branching networks that motile microbes paint across agar plates. Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology’s most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into…...

22+ hour, 29+ min ago   (69+ words) A centuries-old plant alkaloid best known for lowering blood sugar may have another, far more ambitious role: slowing the aging of the immune system itself. In a comprehensive review published in the journal Biogerontology, researchers from the Russian Clinical Research…...

22+ hour, 48+ min ago   (90+ words) There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has dropped a quail egg into boiling water, when a humble ingredient becomes something considerably more complicated. Six minutes of bubbling transforms the dense, buttery yolk into a matrix whose smell, chemistry…...

23+ hour, 55+ min ago   (72+ words) Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha, or HIF1α, has long been celebrated as the master switch that allows cells to sense and survive low-oxygen conditions, a discovery that earned the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In the intestine, this transcription factor is far…...

23+ hour, 59+ min ago   (628+ words) A coating built from red seaweed could soon replace one of medicine’s most indispensable yet most fragile ingredients....

1+ day, 7+ min ago   (97+ words) A root long used in traditional East Asian medicine is now giving up its chemical secrets to modern analytical science. Researchers at Kyungpook National University, working with a collaborator at the University of California, Davis, have carried out an integrated…...