New vaccine production could improve flu shot accuracy
Credit: Rebekah Dumm, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- A new way of producing the seasonal flu vaccine could speed up ...
Greatest threat to eastern forest birds is habitat loss on wintering grounds
(Cornell University) Human-caused habitat loss looms as the greatest threat to some North American breeding birds. The problem will be ...
New map may lead to drug development for complex brain disorders, USC researcher says
Credit: Steven Park Just as parents are not the root of all their children's problems, a single gene mutation can't ...
Too little vitamin D may hinder recovery of injured corneas
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 24, 2017) - Injury or disease in combination with too little vitamin D can ...
Research targets long-term brain deficits in cardiac arrest survivors
New Orleans, LA - Research conducted by Jason Middleton, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy, and Neuroscience at ...
UMD engineers invent the first bio-compatible, ion current battery
COLLEGE PARK -- Engineers at the University of Maryland have invented an entirely new kind of battery. It is bio-compatible ...
Nutritional value of soybean meal varies among sources from different countries
URBANA, Ill. - Research from the University of Illinois is helping swine producers know what they're getting when they buy ...
New study challenges prevailing theory about how deep-sea vents are colonized
Credit: © 2015 MBARI MOSS LANDING, CA--An article just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B describes two ...
Infected insects cause a stink
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Tiny eel-like creatures called nematodes are surrounding us. While they can be free-living (a ...
Two undergrads improve plant carbon-cycle models
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In the summer of 2012, two undergraduate students tackled a problem ...
Study identifies new brain death pathway in Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Deanna Dent, Arizona State University Alzheimer's disease tragically ravages the brains, memories and ultimately, personalities of its victims. Now ...
Receptors for neuron communication in humans vital for reproduction in mosses
Credit: Carlos Ortiz-Ramírez, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Glutamate receptors play a central role in the human nervous system. Scientists estimate ...
Molecular archaeology
Credit: Photo: Patrick Cabrol Copyrights: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Using the largest and most informative molecular phylogenetic ...
Could ‘cocktail geoengineering’ save the climate?
Credit: Illustration courtesy of Ken Caldeira. Earth image courtesy of NASA. Geoengineering is a catch-all term that refers to various ...
$1.8 million NIH grant to Wayne State to aid in developing improved cholera treatments
DETROIT - The human pathogen Vibrio cholerae - or V. cholerae - causes cholera, an infectious and often fatal disease ...
Scientists capture first image of major brain receptor in action
Credit: Sobolevsky lab/Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (July 24, 2017)?Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have captured the ...
What do sex in moss and neurons have in common?
Credit: Carlos Ortiz-Ramírez. For many years biologists have wondered why plants have so many genes coding for proteins that are ...
Researchers find corn gene conferring resistance to multiple plant leaf diseases
Researchers at North Carolina State University have found a specific gene in corn that appears to be associated with resistance ...
Fungi that evolved to eat wood offer new biomass conversion tool
Credit: Karel Tejkal, used with permission AMHERST, Mass. - Twenty years ago, microbiologist Barry Goodell, now a professor at the ...
The coast is not so clear
For nearly a century, the O'Shaughnessy seawall has held back the sand and seas of San Francisco's Ocean Beach. At ...
