... to animals and humans."
A key to the project, according to Curtiss, is "turning a foe into a friend." That foe is the salmonella bacterium—the leading cause of human food-borne illness and which is ...
Sometimes it's hard to tell friends from foes, biologically speaking. Naturally produced in the body, urokinase plasminogen activator and plasminogen interact to break up blood clots and recruit clean ...
... a study published today in Science shows, the mosquitoes can also be our allies in the fight against this common foe, which kills almost one million people a year and heavily impairs the economies of ...
... for food underwater. Males possess hind leg spurs that can deliver pain-inducing venom to its foes competing for a mate or territory during the breeding season.
"The fascinating mix of features in ...
... forecasting, topographical mapping, biohazard detection, autonomous vehicle navigation, battlefield friend/foe identification and missile tracking, to name a few.
“There is an increasing demand for ...
When killer T cells of the immune system encounter virus-infected or cancer cells, they unload a lethal mix of toxic proteins that trigger the target cells to self-destruct. A new study shows T cells ...
... by couples attempting to have babies. Embryonic stem cells have been controversial because abortion foes consider them to be human beings rather than a small batch of cells.
Capecchi won the Nobel ...
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Supporters and foes of a proposed University of California, Berkeley sports center that ignited a rancorous tree-sitting protest claimed victory after a judge issued a complex ...
After six years and $62 million, the Bronx Zoo has been completely refashioned into a prime example of the contemporary zoo’s altered vision.
Anti-whaling activists seem to attack Japan like it's their personal Moby Dick. But is that fair, when Norway and Iceland openly defy the world ban by whaling commercially?
Brian Scott and colleagues examine the molecular basis of chronic beryllium disease
(AP) -- The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy.
Researchers have found that crows, renowned for their ability to flourish in human-dominated landscapes, can recognize individual human faces.
The insects steer clear of foes they've fought in the past
Burnham Institute for Medical Research today announced that scientists have created a peptide that binds to Bcl-2, a protein that protects cancer cells from programmed cell death, and converts it ...
