Scientists discover highly asymmetric and branched patterns are the result of physical forces and local instabilities; research has important implications for understanding biofilms and multicellular systems.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 11, 2013
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Phosphorus is a vital nutrient for pig growth, but the majority of the phosphorus in common plant-based feedstuffs is bound to phytate and therefore is unavailable to pigs. Diets fed to pigs can be supplemented with microbial ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 5, 2013
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A cheaper, more efficient technique for developing complex protein drugs from bacteria has been developed at the University of Sheffield.
Biotechnology
Jun 5, 2013
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A simple method has been found that tells people who have become seriously ill after a tick bite once and for all whether they have bacteria in their blood.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 5, 2013
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A protein that costs the Australian sheep industry hundreds of millions of dollars each year may also pave the way to an antidote for chemical warfare agents.
Materials Science
Jun 4, 2013
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A major question in ecology has centered on the role of microbes in regulating ecosystem function. Now, in research published ahead of print in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Brajesh Singh of the University ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 31, 2013
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Evolutionarily speaking, we humans are doing pretty well. Over the last few million years, we've developed big brains, social structures and more recently, culture, cities, philosophy, airplanes and the Internet. So far, ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 31, 2013
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Researchers in Japan used state-of-the-art micro-sculpting techniques on a new type of resin that can be molded into complex, highly conductive 3-D structures (in this case the famous "Stanford bunny") with features just ...
Optics & Photonics
May 29, 2013
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(Phys.org) —In an age when microbial pathogens are growing increasingly resistant to the conventional antibiotics used to tamp down infection, a team of Wisconsin scientists has synthesized a potent new class of compounds ...
Biochemistry
May 23, 2013
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(Phys.org) —The temperature in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic is nearly as cold as that of the surface of Mars. So the recent discovery by a McGill University led team of scientists of a ...
Earth Sciences
May 23, 2013
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