While there may be medications that help soothe sunburnt skin, when it comes to healing that skin … well, we pretty much have to just wait for our bodies to do that on their own. Recen... Read more
Glucose meters aren’t just for diabetics anymore. Thanks to University of Illinois chemists, they can be used as simple, portable, inexpensive meters for a number of target molecules i... Read more
Molecular Soup Exhibits Brainlike Behavior Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. R... Read more
While scientists have long had the ability to edit individual genes, it is a slow, expensive and hard to use process. Now researchers at Harvard and MIT have developed technologies, which th... Read more
After an unanticipated setback a year ago, Myriad Genetics has taken its case to a federal appeals court to retain its patents for the BRCA1 andBRCA2 genes The latest chapter in the legal ba... Read more
Metallic copper surfaces kill microbes on contact, decimating their populations, according to a paper in the February 2011 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. They d... Read more
They said it could be done and now they’ve done it. What’s more, they did it with a GRIN. A team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley... Read more
Over the past decade, touchscreens have risen to dominate mobile phone and other mobile consumer electronic device interfaces – and their popularity shows no sign of waning. Capacitive touch... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The information is likely to have a major impact on livestock breeding The genome of a female Hereford cow has been sequenced, which could be a starting point for major i... Read more
Understanding the biological basis of senescence may allow us to delay or prevent the degenerative declines long accepted as an inevitable part of getting older. The chief causes of natural... Read more