日期：2014-02-10 Getting in the right shape might be just as important in a biology lab as a gym. Shape is thought to play an important role in the effectiveness of cells grown to repair or replace damaged tissue in the body. To help design new structures that enabl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-02-10 In research that could ultimately lead to many new medicines, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a potentially general approach to design drugs from genome sequence. As a proof of principle, th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-02-08 A team of scientists last year presented evidence of a correlation between the migration patterns of ocean salmon and Earth's magnetic field, suggesting it may help explain how the fish can navigate across thousands of miles of water to find their r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-02-08 Around the world, more and more young people are failing to find stable jobs and live independently. A new study from IIASA population researchers explains why. The numbers of young people who fail to transition from childhood to independent adultho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-02-08 A new study shows New York fashion designers don't just flock to trends: They also do nearly all their business within the confines of the city's historic Garment District. Study co-authors Sarah Williams of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Pla... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-02-08 In most cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS肌萎缩侧索硬化症 ), or Lou Gehrig's disease, a toxin released by cells that normally nurture neurons in the brain and spinal cord can trigger loss of the nerve cells affected in the disease, Columb... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-02-08 A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist and his colleagues have found a new application for the tools and mathematics typically used in physics to help solve problems in biology. Specifically, the team used statistical mechanics and mathe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-02-08 An international team of researchers led by scientists at Virginia Tech and the University of California, Berkeley has discovered that a process that turns on photosynthesis（光合作用） in plants likely developed on Earth in ancient microbes 2.5 bil... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-02-08 With a stock estimated at 1,000 million tons so far, mesopelagic（海洋中层的） fish dominate the total biomass of fish in the ocean. However, a team of researchers with the participation of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has found that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-28 Scientists have sequenced the genome of the world's oldest continuously surviving cancer, a transmissible genital cancer that affects dogs. This cancer, which causes grotesque genital tumors in dogs around the world, first arose in a single dog that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-28 Just how are adults learning to use technology? Chances are if you are a parent, your child is teaching you. A recent paper published in the Journal of Communication found that between 30%-40% of parents were taught how to use the computer and Inter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-28 New research from Queen's University Belfast shows that the tropical forests of South East Asia have been shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years. The rain forests of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Thailand and Vietnam were previously thought to have bee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-28 Researchers from Warwick Medical School have discovered a critical point of failure in the microscopic transport system that operates inside every cell in the human body. The study, published today in Nature Communications, explains how this tiny 'r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-28 Humans, by most estimates, discovered fire over a million years ago. But when did they really begin to control fire and use it for their daily needs? That question -- one which is central to the subject of the rise of human culture -- is still hotly... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-27 Lal Teer Livestock Limited, an associate of LalTeer Seed Ltd., the largest seed company in Bangladesh with strong hybrid research program, and BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, jointly announced today that they have completed the genom... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-27 As the male tngara frog serenades（唱小夜曲） female frogs from a pond, he creates watery ripples that make him easier to target by rivals and predators such as bats, according to researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, the Smithsonian T... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-27 In work that has major implications for improving the performance of building insulation（房屋保温） , scientists at the University of Namur in Belgium and the University of Hassan I in Morocco have calculated that hairs that reflect infrared light... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-27 Biochemical reactions sometimes have to handle dangerous things in a safe way. New work from researchers at UC Davis and Stanford University shows how cyanide（氰化物） and carbon monoxide are safely bound to an iron atom to construct an enzyme that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-27 Flexible, layered materials textured with nanoscale wrinkles could provide a new way of controlling the wavelengths and distribution of waves, whether of sound or light. The new method, developed by researchers at MIT, could eventually find applicat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-01-27 Where do new genes come from? is a long-standing question in genetics and evolutionary biology. A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, published Jan. 23 in Science Express, shows that new genes are created from non-codi... 阅读全文>>