Month: October 2019

Göttingen scientists are on the trail of an alternative erythropoietin receptorCredit: Ralf Heinrich The hormone erythropoietin (Epo) is a well-known ...

Dynamic images show rhomboid protease in action

Credit: Barth van Rossum, FMP Rhomboid proteases are clinically relevant membrane proteins that play a key role in various diseases. ...

IKBFU researchers have discovered another natural antioxidant — alder bark

An alder bark may become a great source of anti-aging and anti-disease natural antioxidantsCredit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University An ...

Informal sharing of breast milk gains popularity among women, despite safety risks

Research focuses on reasons women turn to other mothers for breast milk instead of milk banksCredit: Sood/Milanaik NEW ORLEANS - ...

Survey completeness of a global citizen-science database of bird occurrence

Credit: Blythe Mettitt, courtesy Cornell Lab of Ornithology There are many shortfalls in knowledge of the world's biodiversity, and one ...

New portable DNA sequencer quickly and accurately diagnoses wheat viruses

Credit: John P. Fellers, Christian Webb, Madison C. Fellers, Jessica Shoup Rupp, and Erick De Wolf New Portable DNA Sequencer ...

UM student research tests ways to reduce errors in wildlife surveys

Credit: Kaitlyn Strickfaden, University of Montana research associate MISSOULA - Research led by a University of Montana undergraduate student to ...

Using AI to better understand and model the earth system

International research team wins major grant to support work combining machine learning with physical models of atmosphere and land to ...

WPI researcher creating safer, more accurate way to detect prostate cancer

WPI Biomedical Engineer receives $1.8 Million NIH grant to build robotic system to find and monitor common and deadly cancerCredit: ...

Stingless bee species depend on a complex fungal community to survive

A report published in PLOS ONE describes key roles of various microorganisms in the development of the larvae of Scaptotrigona ...

Study: Tradeoffs between commute time, safety

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Urban commuters may be less likely to encounter automobile accidents if ...

New drug-delivery technology promises efficient, targeted cancer treatment

Credit: Photo by PNNL PULLMAN, Wash. -- A precise and non-toxic treatment that targets lung cancer cells at the nanoscale ...

NASA finds heavy rain potential in typhoon Bualoi over Marianas

Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Typhoon Bualoi was lashing the Marianas Islands in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean when NASA's Aqua ...

Los Alamos AI model wins flu forecasting challenge

'Dante' beat 23 others in predicting the timing, peak, and short-term intensity of the unfolding 2018-2019 flu season. Enhanced version ...

Pushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation

Systems 'learn' from novel dataset that captures how pushed objects move, to improve their physical interactions with new objectsCredit: Image ...

NASA imagery reveals Neoguri now extra-tropical

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Formerly a typhoon, now an extra-tropical storm, Neoguri ...

IQSEC1 gene mutations cause new intellectual disability syndrome

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine It used to take several years or sometimes decades to unequivocally identify the genes that ...

New organelle that helps prevent cancer discovered in our cells

Could lead to better treatments, spare patients ones that won't workCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Scientists at the University of ...

Q-suite motor assessment tool promising for evaluating Huntington’s disease

Having a test to measure subtle changes in motor ability in young childrenCredit: National Institute of Neurological Disorders Amsterdam, NL, ...

Regenstrief and IUPUI researchers use EHRs to identify cancer symptom clusters