by admin | Nov 14, 2017 | biology, earth and environment
Humans commonly view insects as unwanted nuisances, and many modern land-management practices focus on reducing insect numbers using toxic pesticides and invasive biological controls. Professor Timothy Schowalter at Louisiana State University has been studying insect... 
by admin | Oct 31, 2017 | biology, earth and environment
Intestinal worms are among the most common types of parasitic infections worldwide. Despite technological advances in other areas of medical diagnostics, the procedure for identifying worm infection, the faecal egg count, has remained largely unchanged since its debut... 
by admin | Oct 17, 2017 | biology, health and medicine, physical sciences
Monitoring and controlling molecules as they are transported in and out of nanometre-sized compartments is no easy task. Dr Lisa Burden, Dr Daniel Burden and their colleagues at Wheaton College have made significant contributions to understanding these processes by... 
by admin | Oct 3, 2017 | biology, health and medicine, physical sciences
At the NASA Ames Research Center in California, the next generation of space biologists are working to understand the effects of long duration space flight on model organisms, and are developing ways to protect the health of future astronauts. Count Down to the Future... 
by admin | Sep 25, 2017 | biology, engineering and tech
How do you determine important scientific links when you are flooded by new publications each day? Professor Julio Collado-Vides and his team at the National University of Mexico appear to have the answer. Putting Life in Context Professor Julio Collado-Vides,... 
by admin | Aug 29, 2017 | biology, health and medicine
With antibiotic resistance rapidly emerging among many important bacterial pathogens, it is imperative that new classes of antimicrobials are developed. Professor Roy Robins-Browne and his team at The University of Melbourne are taking a novel approach to...