Research may lead to improvements in water use for crop irrigation
Two papers published in Irrigation and Drainage may help improve estimates of water requirements for crops, which will save water ...
Deer prefer native plants leaving lasting damage on forests
ITHACA, N.Y. - When rampant white-tailed deer graze in forests, they prefer to eat native plants over certain unpalatable invasive ...
A dash of gold improves microlasers
Gold. The word brings to mind wedding rings, buried treasure and California in the 1840's. But when gold is reduced ...
New techniques may help scientists understand and manipulate bone remodeling
Osteoporosis is a disease categorized by brittle bones and increased risk of fracture. Individuals with osteoporosis, and diseases like it, ...
UTA develops cutting-edge lubricant technologies to improve gas mileage, reduce wear
Credit: UTA Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have developed a pipeline of new vehicle lubricant technologies that ...
DNA damage caused by cancer treatment reversed by ZATT protein
Credit: Scott Williams An international team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health is the first to discover ...
Gluten intolerance appears largely undiagnosed in Canada
Research on a large sample of Canadians suggests that most people with celiac disease don't know they have it. Ahmed ...
30,000-year old Sungir Homo sapiens visualized for the first time in 3-D virtual reality
Visual Science and the RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, with support from the All-Russian Science Festival "Nauka 0+", have ...
Jim Mellon announces launch of new book juvenescence: Investing in the Age of Longevity
Credit: Jim Mellon & Al Chalabi Wednesday, October 4th, 2017, London, UK: Biogerontology Research Foundation Trustee Jim Mellon announces the ...
Preeclampsia triggered by an overdose of gene activity
Preeclampsia is the most dangerous form of hypertension during a pregnancy and can be fatal for both mother and child. ...
Predicting insect feeding preferences after deforestation
Credit: Felix Fornoff, University of Freiburg Like a scene from the movie Alien, insect parasitoids inject their eggs into unsuspecting ...
Plant cells survive but stop dividing upon DNA damage
Credit: Masaaki Umeda (Nara, Japan) The cell cycle is the system through which a cell grows and divides. It is ...
Researchers help develop new antifungal drug
University of Liverpool researchers, working with F2G Limited (Eccles, Manchester), have developed a new antifungal drug to help in the ...
Penn team shows how seemingly acute viral infections can persist
Credit: University of Pennslyvania Infections caused by viruses, such as respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, measles, parainfluenza and Ebola, are ...
The Gold Standard: John Innes Centre receives Athena SWAN Gold award
Credit: John Innes Centre A world-leading plant and microbial science institute, the John Innes Centre, has become the first institution ...
Imaging agents developed to better monitor growth of tumors
Credit: University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) UAlberta researchers have created two new imaging agents that could help physicians visualize the ...
CRI study challenges long-standing concept in cancer metabolism
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 5, 2017 - Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern ...
DSI professor conducts research to combat pancreatic cancer
Credit: DSI Tal Danino, a professor at the Data Science Institute, is conducting research that could help scientists combat the ...
Good-guy bacteria may help cancer immunotherapies do their job
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 5, 2017 - Individuals with certain types of bacteria in their gut may be ...
Scientists enlist supercomputers, machine learning to automatically identify brain tumors
Credit: Andreas Mang, Sameer Tharakan, Amir Gholami, Naveen Himthani, Shashank Subramanian, James Levitt, Muneeza Azmat, Klaudius Scheufele, Miriam Mehl, Christos ...
