The first results of the international project The Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel, published this week in Nature, trace a detailed map of the genomic imprinting of natural selection in the model organism used in the studies of genetics, the Drosophila melanogaster....
The haunting memory of the Great War in Britain is captured in the literary representation of the traumatised soldier returning home from war. Drawing on trauma theory and taking the figure of the shell-shocked soldier as a point of departure, Cristina Pividori, researcher at the...
Catalysts are substances that promote or accelerate certain chemical reactions. Using organocatalysts (organic catalysts) as an alternative makes it unnecessary to use metal complexes often responsible for unwanted toxic impurities, something which is particularly...
Plants send signals into the atmosphere to communicate with other plants and animals: when a plant is attacked by a pathogen or a herbivore it releases certain compounds into the air that "warn" others of the imminent danger so that they can prepare themselves. These...
