Month: August 2018

Credit: Lou Corpuz-Bosshart / UBC The deadly Nipah virus and others like it assemble themselves in a much more haphazard ...

NIH begins clinical trial of live, attenuated Zika vaccine

Credit: NIAID Vaccinations have begun in a first-in-human trial of an experimental live, attenuated Zika virus vaccine developed by scientists ...

Childhood exposure to secondhand smoke may increase risk of adult lung disease death

A new study suggests that long-term exposure to secondhand smoke during childhood increases the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Opt-out organ donation register unlikely to increase number of donations

An opt-out organ donation register is unlikely to increase the number of donations, according to a new study from Queen ...

Math shows how human behavior spreads infectious diseases

Mathematics can help public health workers better understand and influence human behaviours that lead to the spread of infectious disease, ...

3D inks that can be erased selectively

Credit: Nature Communications 3D printing by direct laser writing enables production of micro-meter-sized structures for many applications, from biomedicine to ...

Frequent fires make droughts harder for young trees, even in wet eastern forests

Credit: Tyler Refsland, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Forests in the eastern United States may have had it easy ...

Old species learn new tricks…very slowly

Credit: Sean Mattson, STRI A quick look at the fossil record shows that no species lasts forever. On average, most ...

Scientists discover chemical which can kill glioblastoma cells

Aggressive brain tumour cells taken from patients self-destructed after being exposed to a chemical in laboratory tests, researchers have shown. ...

How gene hunting changed the culture of science

Credit: Petersen et al., Sci. Adv. 2018 Years after the end of the Human Genome Project (HGP), which mapped the ...

Logging permit fraud threatens timber species in Brazilian Amazon

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Timber harvested illegally under fraudulent permits is undercutting conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon, new research by ...

This matrix delivers healing stem cells to injured elderly muscles

Credit: Georgia Tech / Christopher Moore A car accident leaves an aging patient with severe muscle injuries that won't heal. ...

Perot Museum of Nature And Science and University of the Witwatersrand form partnership

Credit: Perot Museum of Nature and Science The MOU is part of the Museum's new strategic focus on human origins, ...

Mechanism that affects multiplication of dengue virus lineage is discovered

A lineage of type 1 dengue virus found in Brazil is able to prevail over another even though it multiplies ...

National Magazine honors UC Riverside program focused on diversifying STEM fields

Credit: Carrie Rosema. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The University of California, Riverside Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program has received the 2018 ...

New clues into how ‘trash bag of the cell’ traps and seals off waste

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The mechanics behind how an important process within the cell traps material before recycling it has ...

When viruses infect phytoplankton, it can change the clouds

Credit: Miri Trainic Microscopic plant-like organisms called phytoplankton are known to support the diversity of life in the ocean. Scientists ...

Study of greater Yellowstone pronghorn finds highway crossing structures a conservation success

Credit: Jeff Burrell A recently published study by scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Oregon State University has ...

Play-doh helps plant research

Credit: Monica Moriak When plants are in distress or being fed on by insects, they have been known to send ...

Long-term efficacy of AAV5-based gene therapy to treat day blind sheep with achromatopsia