Researchers at MIT have been working on invoking natural sleep patterns. MIT Researchers have announced that they were able to trigger a period of rapid eye movement (REM), otherwise known as dream sleep, in mice, using a technique that shines light directly on mouse neurons. Getting enough of the right...
A new research study released by University of Utah Biologists uncovers even more frightening discoveries about the dangers of high-fructose corn syrup. In a recent study using both male and female mice as test subjects, the biologists fed them a fructose-glucose mixture found in high-fructose corn syrup in doses equal...
The quest to find more environmentally sustainable energy solutions has become a top priority in the last few years. It is no longer a question of if we need to reduce our carbon output, but how we should do it. One of the biggest contributors to our carbon output is...
In a recent expedition to the Mariana Trench, home of the deepest place on Earth located near Guam in the Western Pacific, Biologists discovered a new species of fish. The new species was found in the deepest level of the Mariana Trench ever visited. The research biologists used five deep-sea...
UCLA recently announced a new institute to help medical and biology researchers make sense of ‘big data’ and it’s relation to issues emerging in the field of bioscience. With all the various forms of technologies today creating massive stockpiles of digital information, scientists hope to make better use of it....
CarboMer produces specialty chemicals for the life sciences. The company’s Specialty Chemicals Division produces carbohydrate specialty chemicals for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, nutraceuticals, consumer products and other uses. The company is a pioneer and leader in carbohydrate and polymer technology and has extensive expertise in the material sciences. CarboMer’s mission is to partner with...
Poisonous mushrooms may indeed hold the key to better medicines for treating disease. The enzymes found in the poisonous mushrooms may be used for future medicines provided by pharmaceutical suppliers. Michigan State University Scientists have discovered an enzyme in mushrooms that makes the lethal potency of poisonous mushrooms. The team discovered that the...
In the last two years, the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) engineered E. Coli bacteria to convert glucose into significant quantities of methyl ketones. Methyl ketones are a class of chemical compounds. These chemical compounds are used primarily for fragrances and flavors (in cheese oddly...
Scientists at the Columbia University Medical Center have produced a new series of studies and clinical trials proving that a diet that is rich with the super antioxidant cocoa containing flavanols has powerful effects on the health of the human brain. The subjects that were studied who had diets rich...
Immortal Cells? It’s far more common than the dazzling wording makes it sound. Our bodies experience an occurrence of cell immortalization when cells begin dividing and never stop. Recall the programmed death of a cell is called Apoptosis and it is a very healthy and natural occurrence in the human...
Geobiologist, Shuhai Xiao from Virigina Tech and Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have collaborated together and discovered a fossil that contains evidence of it’s living organisms about 60 million years earlier than we originally thought. The findings show that scientists have misinterpreted multicellular fossils and bacteria and as...
Researchers at Rice University have discovered promising new insight into collagen regeneration. The study shows Collagen, which is the most abundant protein found in mammals, has the capability to self-assemble into fibrous bones and tissues when enabled properly. This assembling process’s success is heavily dependent on how the ends of...
Eric Betzig and his research team at Janelia, have created a new lattice light-sheet microscope that allows better imaging and viewing of cells, even internal imaging of the cells rapid movements. Lattice light sheet microscope uses a thin sheet of patterned light to peer inside single living cells, revealing the three-dimensional shapes of...
Kiyoshi Mabuchi and fellow researchers at Kitasato University in Minato, Japan, have won the IgNobel Prize in Physics for their research into the science behind the slipperiness of banana peels. Yes, banana peels. The IgNobels celebrate the truly unusual in science, technology, engineering and math and while they sound...
In the beginning the birth of artificial sweeteners seemed like a god-sent gift for dieters and those cautious about their calorie intake. Unfortunately, more and more evidence keeps surfacing that points to it being too good to be true. In fact, recent research from the Weizmann Institute of Science released...
New study shows the active ingredients in the popular Asian spice, Turmeric, has been found to speed brain repair. Researchers from the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine in Julich, Germany announced that based on a recent study one of the major ingredients in turmeric, aromatic-tumerone, appears to encourage the growth...
