New MRI contrast agent tested on big animals
Credit: IBS The top causes of death worldwide, ischemic heart diseases and stroke, together with another major source of illness, ...
Statistical analysis for optimal immunization: New insights into T cell development
When T cells encounter an antigen, they proliferate and produce various types of daughter cells. A team at the Technical ...
RI to require coverage of fertility preservation for at-risk patients
Rhode Island has become the first state to pass a law explicitly requiring coverage for fertility preservation prior to gonadotoxic ...
Bacterial biofilms, begone
Credit: Colorado State University/Advanced Functional Materials FORT COLLINS, COLORADO - By some estimates, bacterial strains resistant to antibiotics - so-called ...
Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice
Credit: Ken Markoff An interdisciplinary team of researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has concluded that bacteria in ...
Successful prediction of multi-year US droughts and wildfire risk
The next mega-droughts and subsequent active wildfire seasons for the western U.S. might be predictable a full year in advance, ...
Cycad leaf physiology research needed
Credit: Thomas Marler The living cycad species are among the world's most threatened plant groups, but are also among the ...
Study reinforces the Amazon forest’s importance in regulating atmospheric chemistry
Credit: photo: GOAmazon Airborne measurements made as part of the Green Ocean Amazon experiment (GOAmazon) show that the Amazon rainforest ...
Big data approach can predict toxicity of chemicals, save animals
Delhi -- Experts from across India will gather from July 31 to August 1 at the Indian Institute of Technology ...
Lab led by Zhe Han, Ph.D., receives $1.75 million from NIH to continue pioneering research
Credit: Children's National Health System The National Institutes of Health has awarded $1.75 million to a research lab led by ...
Dinosaur-era plant found alive in North America for first time
Imagine you're at work and suddenly, a cheetah pokes its head through your window. That's about what Richard McCourt, PhD, ...
Researchers build a patch to help cardiac muscle beat more strongly after a heart attack
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has been awarded a $452,000 National Institutes of ...
Advancing public engagement at the Ecological Society of America
Credit: Courtesy Caitlin Weber With the growing concern for global and local environmental issues, ecologists in academia, agencies and the ...
The undertaker’s census
Credit: Andres Hernandez, STRI How many mammal species live in a tropical forest? Some are nocturnal. Others are small, furtive ...
New in the Hastings Center Report, July-August 2017
The Precision Medicine Nation Maya Sabatello and Paul S. Appelbaum The federal government's ambitious Precision Medicine Initiative proposes to accelerate ...
New drug may treat and limit progression of Parkinson’s disease
BINGHAMTON, NY - Researchers at Binghamton University have developed a new drug that may limit the progression of Parkinson's disease ...
Biofeedback technology helping improve balance in Parkinson’s patients
Credit: University of Houston University of Houston researchers in the Department of Health and Human Performance are helping patients with ...
Statistical analysis to explain mechanism in state of general anesthesia
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (July 31, 2017) - Although the mechanisms by which anesthetic drugs induce the state of general anesthesia have ...
New and novel technologies successfully demonstrated in soilborne disease study
St. Paul, Minn. (August 2017)--Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), a prominent soilborne disease of soybean, can be devastating. Yield losses from ...
Understanding how fishers fish on coral reefs can inform fishery management strategies
Credit: Figure provided by lead author Tyler Pavlowich A Dartmouth study of spearfishing on a Caribbean coral reef illustrates how ...
