Researchers create new low-cost, sustainable material for reducing air and water pollution
Credit: © 2018 Zanoletti, Vassura, Venturini, Monai, Montini, Federici, Zacco, Treccani and Bontempi. Front. Chem. | doi: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00060 A new ...
Natural sniper kills hospital bacterium
Bacteria produce proteins to take out specific competitors. One of these proteins can kill the hospital bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbial ...
Discovered mode of drinking in mosquitoes carries biomedical implications
Credit: Virginia Tech Mosquitoes may have a reputation for being one of the world's most intractable pests, but they're actually ...
USTC reports diamond ring architecture of a protein complex
Credit: USTC News Center Just as diamond ring is needed in marriage, NuA4/Tip60, a complex with diamond ring architecture, is ...
New study brings us one step closer to understanding how tidal clocks tick
Credit: Yisrael Schnytzer Almost all organisms have an internal biological clock that synchronizes their behavior with the environment in which ...
Smithsonian researchers name new ocean zone: The rariphotic
Credit: Carole Baldwin, Smithsonian Based on the unique fish fauna observed from a manned submersible on a southern Caribbean reef ...
Switch discovered to convert blood vessels to blood stem cells in embryonic development
A switch has been discovered that instructs blood vessel cells to become blood stem cells during embryonic development in mice. ...
Apixaban is a safe alternative to warfarin during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
Barcelona, Spain - 20 March 2018: Apixaban and warfarin are equally safe during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation, according to ...
Trial shows safety of drugs for irregular heartbeat patients undergoing treatment
A trial led by the University of Birmingham has found that two types of blood thinning drugs are safe to ...
Harvard bioengineers’ biomaterial-based cancer immunotherapies to be developed by Novartis
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (BOSTON) - The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the ...
High consumption of red and processed meat linked to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and insulin resistance
Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, March 20, 2018 - World meat consumption has increased during the last decades, and evidence ...
Pipe-crawling robot will help decommission DOE nuclear facility
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving ...
Potential cognitive effects of targeted drugs in children may be reversible with therapy
Bottom Line: Young mice that received molecularly targeted therapies used to treat brain cancer in human patients sustained cognitive and ...
Music therapy aids healing of military personnel
A new paper published in Music Therapy Perspectives examines the importance of music therapy in military healthcare. There has been ...
Weight loss after stomach-narrowing surgery eases chronic knee pain
A new report finds that extremely obese people who have a band surgically strapped around their stomachs to restrict food ...
Tamoxifen and raloxifene slow down the progression of muscular dystrophy
Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, March 20, 2018 - Steroids are currently the only available treatment to reduce ...
New Gulf of Maine study investigates return of kelp
Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has been awarded funding from Maine Sea Grant for ...
Five new species of frogs identified in museum collections
Researchers from Yale-NUS College and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered five new species of Southeast Asian ...
Transcription factor helps tumors grow in low oxygen, resist anticancer therapies
An international team of researchers found how cancer cells respond to DNA damage signaling when in low oxygen, or hypoxia. ...
Type 2 Diabetes research held back by animal models
WASHINGTON -- A new report published in Alternatives to Laboratory Animals identifies the limitations of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) ...
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