Can organic plant protection products damage crops?
Researchers at Göttingen University discover new disease affecting maizeCredit: A Pfordt, University of Göttingen Protecting crops against pests and diseases ...
Month: September 2020
Hand pollination, not agrochemicals, increases cocoa yield and farmer income
Agroecologists from Göttingen University compare pesticides, fertilizers, manual pollination and farming costs in IndonesiaCredit: M Toledo, University of Göttingen Cocoa ...
Award supports study of collagen regulation in breast cancer health disparities
$3 million grant to Hollings Cancer Center researcher focuses on defining changes in collagen structure that are linked to disparities ...
URI researcher: Housing prices decline within mile of solar energy arrays
'We need to be smarter in siting solar installations'Credit: University of Rhode Island KINGSTON, R.I. - September 30, 2020 - ...
UC Davis engineers lead $36m effort to improve recovery from spinal cord injuries
Credit: Karen Moxon/UC Davis Engineers at the University of California, Davis, will lead a consortium of universities, biomedical startups and ...
Poor cognitive performance predicts impairment in activities of daily living years later
In study of older Latino caregivers, poorer performance in single cognitive testing was associated with impairments in daily activities seven ...
WVU researcher to tackle the mysteries of dark energy and the universe beyond
Credit: Andre Recnik/CHIME Though it makes up roughly 70 percent of the universe, dark energy is one of the greatest ...
Tufts University to lead $100M program to reduce risk of zoonotic viral spillover, spread
Program will involve large consortium of wildlife and human disease experts and networks from around the worldCredit: Anna Miller/Tufts University ...
Bacteria virus combo may be cause of neonatal brain infections in Uganda
Credit: Schiff Lab, Penn State A newly identified bacteria and a common virus may be the underlying cause of infection-induced ...
Pan-microbial study implicates a potential culprit in a pediatric brain disorder in Uganda
Credit: J.N. Paulson et al., Science Translational Medicine (2020) Researchers have identified a new species of bacteria that may contribute ...
NASA confirms, heavy rainfall, strengthening of tropical storm Marie
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Tropical Storm Marie has formed in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and NASA satellite data helped confirm the ...
Urgent need for blood-based biomarkers to diagnosis concussion
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 30, 2020--There is an urgent need for objective markers for ...
NIH awards $35.5 million to use bioengineered organ models to improve clinical trials
Clinical trials on a chip researchers plan to build and test common and rare disease models to help improve the ...
Planktonic sea snails and slugs may be more adaptable to ocean acidification than expected
An evolutionary study finds that pteropods, or "wing-footed" sea snails and slugs, have faced acidified oceans in the past - ...
The most sensitive and fastest graphene microwave bolometer
Credit: harvard-icfo-mit-bbntechnologies-nims Bolometers are devices that measure the power of incident electromagnetic radiation thru the heating of materials, which exhibit ...
2020 $100k Jean Mayer Prize from Tufts Nutrition awarded for tackling COVID-19 food crisis
Recipients honored for response and commitment to COVID-19 crisis to improving food access, nutrition, communities and cultureCredit: Tufts University BOSTON ...
Finding a cure for multiple sclerosis
Biomedical scientist Seema Tiwari-Woodruff has received funding to identify compounds that can repair damaged axonsCredit: Tiwari-Woodruff lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, ...
New research collaboration enhances primary care
Focused on advancing and strengthening primary care in Canada and across the globeCredit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (September 30, 2020) ...
New mechanism of cell survival in chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Role of STING signaling in normal B cell differentiation suggests that reduced STING expression and activation promotes malignant cell survival ...
Cancer cells use nerve-cell tricks to spread from one organ to the next
Credit: Laboratory Of Systems Cancer Biology at The Rockefeller University Tumors come in many shapes and forms--curable or deadly, solid ...
