Solving the ancient mysteries of Easter Island

The ancient people of Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) built their famous ahu monuments near coastal…

Mutation in sodium-potassium pump: Newly discovered serious disease in children

Researchers have mapped out a newly discovered serious disease which causes children to suffer epileptic seizures,…

New materials could help improve the performance of perovskite solar cells

New research could lead to the design of new materials to help improve the performance of…

Cartilage could be key to safe ‘structural batteries’

Your knees and your smartphone battery have some surprisingly similar needs, a professor has discovered, and…

Viral production is not essential for deaths caused by food-borne pathogen

The replication of a bacterial virus is not necessary to cause lethal disease in mice infected…

Chemical synthesis of nanotubes

For the first time, researchers used benzene -- a common hydrocarbon -- to create a novel…

Cancer: Drug fights formation of metastasis

The most deadly aspect of breast cancer is metastasis. It spreads cancer cells throughout the body.…

Uncovering more options in cancer immunotherapy

If scientists want to boost immune cells' ability to kill cancer cells, then vast libraries of…

Giving Cas9 an ‘on’ switch for better control of CRISPR gene editing

Scientists have created an 'on' switch for CRISPR-Cas9 that allows it to be turned on in…

CRISPR study reveals new immune system regulators

Scientists have created the first retroviral CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing library to explore the regulation of mouse…