Month: December 2016

Credit: Kyle Costa/Caltech Many infectious pathogens are difficult to treat because they develop into biofilms, layers of metabolically active but ...

Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Psoriasis is well-known for causing too many skin cells on elbows, knees, ...

Credit: NASA Using data from NASA satellites and airport visibility sensors, Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers and colleagues are extending an ...

Credit: TU Wien Just like in normal road traffic, crossings are indispensable in optical signal processing. In order to avoid ...

Credit: Video: Thomas Bathon/Paolo Sessi/Matthias Bode Physicists of the University of Würzburg have made an astonishing discovery in a specific ...

Credit: Philip Krantz, Krantz NanoArt Jülich, 8 December 2016. An international team of scientists has succeeded in making further improvements ...

CHAPEL HILL - Why do some breast cancers respond to treatment while others resist it? A study led by researchers ...

Credit: Pawluk et al./Cell 2016 Researchers have discovered a way to program cells to inhibit CRISPR-Cas9 activity. "Anti-CRISPR" proteins had ...

Credit: William Pinder In the typical food web that most of us learned in school, the sun is the ultimate ...

For some time now, scientists have known that climate influences soil chemistry -- and, in particular, soil pH, a measure ...

Credit: iTZiT Visual Techonology/NIOO-KNAW Tiny predators in the soil can literally sniff out their prey: soil bacteria, which communicate with ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - After decades of eluding researchers because of chemical instability, key metal-oxide clusters have been isolated in water, ...

Credit: Reza Shahbazian-Yassar/UIC Battery researchers seeking improved electrode materials have focused on "tunneled" structures that make it easier for charge-carrying ...

Credit: National Cancer Institute PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- People with head and neck cancers with evidence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection ...

(TORONTO, Canada - Dec. 8, 2016) - Results of the largest Canadian clinical trial to date comparing standard treatment for ...

Researchers have made a major discovery about how cells control when to divide - representing a step forward in scientists' ...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Starting in 1993 and ending in 2001, ten academic medical centers in the United ...

Credit: ICIQ A team of researchers at ICIQ in Tarragona (Spain) and Oregon State University (US) combine experimental and computational ...

Credit: Desmond Toa In an algae-eat-algae world, it's the single-celled photosynthetic organisms at the top (layer of the ocean) that ...

Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team As NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Bay of Bengal, Tropical Cyclone ...