Solar farms are swell and all, but they aren't exactly fit for laboratories or studio apartments. Thanks to new discoveries by gurus at the University of Birmingham, though, we could be on our way to a far more diminutive method of creating clean energy. As the story goes, we could soon be using microbes to transform wastes in metals into energy. The team managed to pinpoint Hydrogenase enzymes ...

Cross-linking milk proteins could reduce their digestibility, leading to increased satiety, and reduced allergic reactions, according to new research from Finland.

DO you eat to live or live to eat? Do you only eat when you are hungry or do you eat for other reasons?

The discovery of long-sought chemical antioxidants in the world's toughest microbe is reported in a breakthrough study. First studied nearly 50 years ago, this bacterium can survive massive exposures to gamma-radiation, ultraviolet radiation, desiccation, and other agents which kill cells by generating reactive oxygen species.

German ingredient firm SterEnzym has joined forces with a Lallemand group to create a new range of enzyme and yeast combinations targeting sprit manufacturers in the eastern bloc.

Spring has sprung and what better time to spring clean all corners of your life, walk the road less travelled and make new beginnings. Here are some ways to put some spring back into your step.

About 3.2 million Americans are living with chronic hepatitis C, but many don't know it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the pursuit of biologically active compounds, it is often necessary to be able to control the stereochemistry at predefined positions in a molecular skeleton. The search for ways to prepare chiral building blocks with known configuration that also show structural differentiation is important.

Sometimes it is difficult for teachers to get students interested in science, but BIO's fourth annual Arizona K-12 Science Teacher Symposium hopes to change that.

When Kori Ellen Brooks was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at 2 weeks old, her family was shocked. “I couldn’t even spell cystic fibrosis,” said Kori’s father Kevin Brooks, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Aroney.