A new process patent for adding biodegradable silver nanoparticles to the naturally occurring plant protein lignin has been described in a recent Nature Nanotechnology paper out of NC State University,...

The increase in microbial resistance to common antibiotics has led researchers to seek alternative means for treating infectious diseases.  A recent study in Nano Letters by a team from MIT and Harvard...

The startling resurgence of whooping cough infection in the US and UK over the past couple years has scientists perplexed as to the cause.  A study published this week in BMC Medicine from researchers...

In a study published online today (02/18/15) in the prestigious journal Nature, a team of researchers from across the US have shown complete effectiveness of a new vaccine against simian immunodeficiency...

In a paper published ahead of print in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of Leeds and the University of York have discovered a unique code in single stranded...

On the heels of President Obama’s announcement to increase spending on antibiotic resistance to $1.2B, researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have shown that proteins embedded in bacteria by bacteriophages...

In a collaborative effort that yielded two papers in the journal Nature, researchers from Harvard Medical School and Yale University have inserted new codons into bacteria to produce synthetic amino acids...

While it has long been known that vascular tissue below the skin helps infiltrating white blood cells kill invading pathogens, new research from the University of California, San Diego Medical School has...

A new study points to the ability of specific alleles of the gene IL-28B to increase or decrease the effectiveness of the seasonal flu vaccine, independent of the flu strain the vaccine is targeted against. The...

A new study from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência in Portugal has shown that malaria infection rates are significantly decreased in individuals with increases in particular antibodies derived from interactions...