How it lives in boiling acid offers template for delivering gene therapy By unlocking the secrets of a bizarre virus that survives in nearly boiling acid, scientists at the University of Vir... Read more
TAU researchers develop implant to regenerate nerves Some parts of the body, like the liver, can regenerate themselves after damage. But others, such as our nervous system, are considered ei... Read more
Scientists at Mainz University develop a novel screening procedure for accurately determining the amount of animal, plant, and microbial substances in foods Almost all foodstuffs contain the... Read more
“This is also exciting because we think it’s a therapeutic approach that could apply to other muscle-wasting diseases” Scientists have discovered that injecting a novel hum... Read more
It’s relatively easy to collect massive amounts of data on microbes. But the files are so large that it takes days to simply transmit them to other researchers and months to analyze once the... Read more
One of the most difficult aspects of working at the nanoscale is actually seeing the object being worked on. Biological structures like viruses, which are smaller than the wavelength of ligh... Read more
Cover of The Origin of Virtue Long before “sustainable” became a buzzword, intellectuals wondered how long industrial society could survive. In “The Idea of Decline in Western History,” afte... Read more