Month: March 2018

Credit: Pixabay.com / PollyDot Defying gravity: A special mixture of proteins in the larval food of bees ensures that future ...

Long-term monitoring is essential to effective environmental policy

Credit: Photo: Jordan Jessop) (Millbrook, NY) Environmental policy guided by science saves lives, money, and ecosystems. So reports a team ...

New solution to harmful algal blooms raises hope of economic and environmental benefits

Credit: Dr Martin Rejzek - John Innes Centre A cheap, safe and effective method of dealing with harmful algal blooms ...

Americans slow down the clock of age

Americans may be aging more slowly than they were two decades ago. A new study by University of Southern California ...

Coral reefs suffering in Philippines despite outlawing damaging fishing ptactices

Credit: Jennifer Selgrath Some of the fishing methods used in today's small-scale fisheries are causing more damage to coral reefs ...

Multi-site study explores new approach to upper limb dysfunction after spinal cord injury

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ - March 16, 2018 - Kessler Foundation has been awarded an $857,600 sub-award from ...

Experience trumps youth among jumping fish

Credit: Ben Perlman and Nickolay Hristov Tiny jumping fish can leap further as they get older, new research shows. Mangrove ...

Potential RNA Markers of abnormal heart rhythms identified in circulating blood

Credit: Department of Biofunctional Informatics,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) researchers uncover four microRNA molecules in the bloodstream that ...

Democratizing science: Making neuroscience experiments easier to share, reproduce

Over the past few years, scientists have faced a problem: They often cannot reproduce the results of experiments done by ...

Huntsman Cancer Institute joins national clinical trial targeting AML

Credit: Jonathan Martinez, Huntsman Cancer Institute SALT LAKE CITY - Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U ...

UTHealth receives $2.6 million from Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund for behavioral health

HOUSTON - (March 15, 2018) - The Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund has awarded $2.6 million to The University of Texas ...

Grant to study precision medicine with American Indian, Alaska native people

Credit: Erica Woodahl MISSOULA - The University of Montana and its research partners have earned a $2.1 million grant from ...

Illinois researcher awarded $100,000 Potamkin Prize for dementia research

LOS ANGELES - The American Academy of Neurology and the American Brain Foundation are awarding an Illinois researcher the 2018 ...

Missouri researcher wins $50,000 Sheila Essey Award: An award for ALS research

LOS ANGELES - The American Academy of Neurology, The ALS Association and the American Brain Foundation are awarding the 2018 ...

ACP calls for reducing physician burdens in red tape relief initiative roundtable

Washington, DC (March 15, 2018) --Excessive administrative tasks are a diversion of physicians' time and focus away from patient care, ...

Reducing collateral damage

Healthier fish stocks. Higher catches. Profits from fishing. Is there a way to achieve these holy grails of commercial fisheries ...

The Protein Society announces 2018 award recipients

Credit: The Protein Society CANYON COUNTRY, CA - The Protein Society, the premier international society dedicated to supporting protein research, ...

The Protein Society’s Best Paper Award

Credit: Brian Matthews, Editor Protein Science Warmest congratulations to Minfei Su and Chang-Ting Lin , the recipients of the Protein ...

Dr. A.M. Barrett receives NIH funding to study hand function poststroke

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. March 15, 2018. A.M. Barrett, MD, of Kessler Foundation has received a five-year National ...

Virtual coaches, fitness trackers help patients stay fit after cardiac rehab