Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) is the major polyphenol in the leaves of green tea (Camellia sinensis). This compound is the subject of increasing research...
Colonies of the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) forage in the desert for seeds that provide both food and water. Foragers lose water while out...
Scientists from the University of Cambridge and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK, have identified a group of exoplanets where the same chemical...
A team of scientists has identified 27 new viruses that infect European honeybees (Apis mellifera) and other bee species.
Galbraith et al identified 27...
A team of scientists from Australia and China has found that many of the viruses infecting us today have ancient evolutionary histories that date back...
Researchers have long suspected that color-changing animals like hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus) don’t just rely on their eyes to tune their appearance...
Researchers have for the first time mapped the entire genome of the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), one of the most challenging agricultural...
According to a study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, a new test that measures mRNAs or proteins in human nasal epithelial cells could...
An international team of researchers led by Karolinska Institutet scientists has successfully sequenced and analyzed the genome of a species of salamander...
Ajoene, an active sulfurous compound found in garlic, is able to destroy important components in the communication systems of Staphylococcus aureus and...
In a paper published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, University of Houston Professor Dan Graur says that the functional portion of the human...
An international team of researchers from Cornell University’s Boyce Thompson Institute and Shanghai Normal University has produced the first high-quality...
An international team of researchers led by University of California, Davis, geneticists has publicly released the first public genome sequence of Arabica...
An international team of researchers from Australia, China and the United States has shown for the first time that RNA interference is active in the response...
A new kind of chemical compound can block the protein Ebola virus uses to break out of cells and infect new cells, according to a new study by researchers...
New research is casting doubt on a widely held belief about how cells use DNA to make proteins.
DNA molecule. Image credit: Christoph Bock, Max Planck...
Viruses are fully-alive organisms that share a long evolutionary history with cells, according to a new study published last week in the journal Science...
The light-sensing molecules that tell plants whether to germinate, when to flower and which direction to grow were inherited millions of years ago from...
