CNIO participates in a study that defines the most important genes that increase breast cancer risk
The most ambitious international research ever conducted on the inheritance of breast cancer, based on the analysis of 113,000 samplesCredit:...
Innovations through hair-thin optical fibres
Study by the University of Bonn shows what miniaturised optical filters make possibleCredit: © Uni Bonn Scientists at the University...
NUI Galway contribute to significant breast cancer risk genes study
NUI Galway breast cancer specialists contribute to international study on the identification of nine breast cancer risk genesCredit: NUI Galway...
As oceans warm, large fish struggle
New tool gauges impacts of warming waters on over 200 fish speciesCredit: Credit: Ludovic Lhotte Warming ocean waters could reduce...
Producing green hydrogen through the exposure of nanomaterials to sunlight
A research team from INRS has joined forces with French researchers from ICPEES to pave the way towards the production...
Early breeding reduced harmful mutations in sorghum
Credit: Nadia Shakoor ITHACA, N.Y. - When humans first domesticated maize some 9,000 years ago, those early breeding efforts led...
Much of Earth’s nitrogen was locally sourced
Rice-led study shows two distinct origins of life-essential element in present-day planetCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech HOUSTON - (Jan. 21, 2021) - Where...
California harbor porpoises rebound after coastal gillnetting stopped
Bycatch of protected marine mammals took greater toll than previously realizedCredit: Bill Keener/The Marine Mammal Center Harbor porpoises have rebounded...
Astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman awarded National Academy of Sciences Henry Draper Medal
The prestigious award recognizes Doeleman's work in realizing the first image of a supermassive black hole.Credit: Center for Astrophysics |...
Merging technologies with color to avoid design failures
Credit: Pranav Milind Khanolkar, Penn State Various software packages can be used to evaluate products and predict failure; however, these...
Bonobos, chimpanzees, and oxytocin
A key hormone may underlie social differences among great apesCredit: Kyoto University/Kano Lab Japan -- Despite being our two closest...
Feral colonies provide clues for enhancing honey bee tolerance to pathogens
Credit: Katy Evans, Penn State Understanding the genetic and environmental factors that enable some feral honey bee colonies to tolerate...
Lasers create miniature robots from bubbles (video)
Credit: Video credit belongs to the American Chemical Society. Robots are widely used to build cars, paint airplanes and sew...
European eels – one gene pool fits all
Credit: Anders Asp, SLU European eels spawn in the subtropical Sargasso Sea but spend most of their adult life in...
Novel effector biology research provides insights into devastating citrus greening disease
Credit: Kelley J. Clark, Zhiqian Pang, Jessica Trinh, Nian Wang, and Wenbo Ma Citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing...
NUST MISIS scientists develop fastest-ever quantum random number generator
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS An international research team has developed a fast and affordable quantum random number generator. The device...
Type 2 Diabetes: New Evidence Underlines the Role of Obesity in Late Complications
Credit: Source: DIfE Successful weight loss is considered to be an integral part of the therapy for type 2 diabetes....
A critical review of graphene quantum dots and their application in biosensors
Credit: Authors In a paper published in NANO, researchers from Hubei, China discuss the top-down and bottom-up strategies for the...
Brazilian dam collapse could have been predicted with right monitoring technology
Credit: Google Earth One of Brazil's worst environmental disasters - a dam collapse that also killed more than 200 people...
OHIO researchers ID potential target for anti-viral drugs to battle COVID
OHIO researchers published the first structural biology analysis of a section of the COVID-19 viral RNA called the stem-loop II...
