22+ hour, 57+ 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…...

23+ hour, 21+ 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…...

23+ hour, 24+ 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…...

1+ day, 1+ min ago   (529+ words) Every cell in the brain carries essentially the same genome, yet the same gene can produce a startling variety of RNA molecules. Through a process called alternative splicing, segments of a gene’s transcript can be included, skipped, or rearranged, generating…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (628+ words) A coating built from red seaweed could soon replace one of medicine’s most indispensable yet most fragile ingredients....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (661+ words) A single protein called BAX sits at the gateway between life and death for human cells. When tissues are injured, stressed, or deprived of oxygen, BAX springs into action, punching holes in the outer membrane of mitochondria and triggering the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (587+ words) A team of researchers in China has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of the jumping plant louse Bactericera gobica and, by combining it with nearly every other Triozidae mitogenome available, assembled the most comprehensive genetic dataset ever compiled for…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (485+ words) A sprawling review of the meadow rue genus, Thalictrum, has catalogued a striking trove of biologically active plant chemicals across Africa and Asia, while simultaneously exposing how little of the evidence stands up to rigorous scientific scrutiny....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (55+ words) Pembrolizumab, one of the most widely prescribed cancer immunotherapies in the world, has long been dosed on the assumption that saturating the PD-1 receptor on T cells is the key to unlocking the immune system against tumours. A new translational…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (682+ words) A study that promised a new way to deliver the asthma drug salbutamol sulphate through gelatin-based swellable hydrogels has been struck from the scientific record....