Rosetta online server that includes everyone
Credit: Gray Lab Our bodies are made of biomolecules like proteins, nucleic acids, fats and sugars. These biomolecules are folded ...
Month: April 2017
More small, clean-energy businesses will tap into Sandia technical expertise
Credit: (Graphic courtesy of the Department of Energy) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Department of Energy has chosen five more small, ...
Ancient stress response provides clues to cancer resistance
Credit: Jason Drees for the Biodesign Institute Cancer is often able to craftily outwit the best techniques modern medicine has ...
‘Diet’ products can make you fat, study shows
Credit: Peter Frey/UGA Athens, Ga. - High-fat foods are often the primary target when fighting obesity, but sugar-laden "diet" foods ...
UTA student receives NSF grant for research into ecological drivers of eye, brain size
Credit: UTA Shannon Beston, a third-year Ph.D. student in biology at the University of Texas at Arlington, was selected to ...
Thought Antarctica’s biodiversity was doing well? Think again
Twenty-three experts involved in the study "Antarctica and the strategic plan for biodiversity," recently published in PLoS Biology, debunked the ...
Managing disease spread through accessible modeling
Credit: LANL LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 24, 2017-- A new computer modeling study from Los Alamos National Laboratory is aimed ...
NASA examines newly formed Tropical Depression 3W in 3-D
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce Tropical Depression 03W formed in the Pacific Ocean west of Guam on April ...
Prostate cancer patients would pay $2,000 for more accurate biopsies, Loyola study finds
MAYWOOD, IL - Prostate cancer patients are willing to pay up to $2,000 of their own money for a new ...
What’s coming next? Scientists identify how the brain predicts speech
Credit: Dr Y. Kikuchi et al. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2000219 An international collaboration of neuroscientists has shed light on how the brain helps ...
Gut bacteria tell the brain what animals should eat
Credit: Gil Costa Neuroscientists have, for the first time, shown that gut bacteria "speak" to the brain to control food ...
India’s outsized coal plans would wipe out Paris climate goals
Credit: CoalSwarm.org Irvine, Calif., April 25, 2017 - India will not be able to meet its Paris climate agreement commitments ...
New method to ensure reproducibility in computational experiments
Credit: CRG Research reproducibility is crucial to move forward in science. Unfortunately, and according to recent studies and surveys*, the ...
Religious people more likely to oppose reproductive technologies
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University As new and more effective human reproductive genetic technologies (RGTs) develop, people of faith are more ...
New survey hints at exotic origin for the Cold Spot
Credit: ESA and Durham University A supervoid is unlikely to explain a 'Cold Spot' in the cosmic microwave background, according ...
India’s coal plant plans conflict with climate commitments
WASHINGTON, DC -- India will not be able to meet its Paris climate agreement commitments in the coming years if ...
Environmental enrichment triggers mouse wound repair response
Loading video... Credit: Melinda L. Angus-Hill Living in a stimulating environment has a wide range of health benefits in humans ...
‘Cyclops’ algorithm spots daily rhythms in cells
PHILADELPHIA--Humans, like virtually all other complex organisms on Earth, have adapted to their planet's 24-hour cycle of sunlight and darkness. ...
Higher costs for complex cancer surgery indicator for worse care
HOUSTON - (April 25, 2017) - Higher costs for complex cancer surgery may be an indicator for worse -- rather ...
ASHG announces 2017 winners of National DNA Day essay contest
Credit: (Courtesy Ms. Holman) BETHESDA, MD - In commemoration of National DNA Day, the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) ...
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