Spider silk occupies a distinct place in natural materials science for its combination of mechanical strength, toughness and ...

Milk protein ingredients have good solubility above 6.0 pH, while whey protein ingredients have good solubility at 3.0 to 7.0 ...

There are several ways to manage your blood sugar, some of which includes dietary tweaks, simple lifestyle changes and more.

Life’s most indispensable molecules are not the serene, unchanging fixtures they might appear to be. Even the proteins that ...

Chemist Anne Lüscher showed at 39C3 how synthetic DNA can be used for data storage and tamper-proof authentication.

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...

VCG. On a morning in Sanlitun, Beijing, 32-year-old office worker Zhang Yuan scoops up a spoonful of low-GI (glycemic inde ...

This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and ...

Amerigo Scientific launches its isothermal amplification instrument range to overcome the limitations of current nucleic acid amplification technologies.