Bacterium makes complex loops
Research team analyses flagellar locomotionCredit: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces/Klaas Bente A scientific team from the Biosciences and...
Extra olive virgin oil keeps healthy properties when used for cooking
Simulation of cooking conditions in a domestic kitchenCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Consuming extra virgin olive oil has proved to have...
Hannah Dailey receives NSF CAREER award for virtual mechanical test for bone healing
Lehigh University MechE professor's approach holds promise for avoiding nonunions, which carry risks of depression, opioid abuse; award also supports...
Support grows for technology aimed at turning bad fat to good fat
Credit: Alexander M. Gokan WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A significant investment from a Purdue University alumnus and his wife will...
Printer toner linked to genetic changes, health risks in new study
Credit: Aira Burkhart/West Virginia University Getting printer toner on your hands is annoying. Getting it in your lungs may be...
Joining forces to fighting rice diseases in India
Biology: HHU signs Memorandum of UnderstandingCredit: HHU / Jochen Mueller A large proportion of India's farmers live from growing rice,...
Five million euros for the ‘de.NBI’ bioinformatics network
Further funding for the project based in Bielefeld five years after its startCredit: Photo: Bielefeld University/M.-D. Müller It should be...
Genetic ‘fingerprints’ implicate gut bacterium in bowel cancer
Credit: Cayetano Pleguezuelos-Manzano, Jens Puschhof, Axel Rosendahl Huber, ©Hubrecht Institute. A common type of bacteria found in our guts could...
New immunotherapeutic strategy shows promise in eradicating infectious biofilms
Communities of bacteria known as biofilms are notorious for forming on implanted medical devices and tissues in the body, where...
SNIPRs take aim at disease-related mutations
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University A typo appearing in the draft of a novel is no great...
Identifying pathogenic genes in virus strains at a glance
International project to help determine genetic abnormalitiesCredit: Bielefeld University/R. Wittler When new viruses or bacteria spread to humans, it is...
Team deciphers how myotonic dystrophy generates lethal heart dysfunctions
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Roughly 80% of people with myotonic dystrophy - a common form...
Baldness gene discovery reveals origin of hairy alpine plants
Credit: Ying Tan Scientists have solved a puzzle that has long baffled botanists - why some plants on high mountainsides...
A new strategy to prevent the most aggressive tumors from generating resistance to chemotherapy
This strategy can open new avenues to improve the effectiveness of therapies in thousands of patients who are currently being...
How cardiorespiratory function is related to genetics
Credit: Lancaster University How high altitudes affect people's breathing and its coordination with the heart beat is due to genetic...
Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the Universe
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Naval Research Lab/Giacintucci, S.; XMM:ESA/XMM; Radio: NCRA/TIFR/GMRTN; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the...
Shaping the future of machine learning for active matter
Credit: Malin Arnesson Now researchers are presenting guidelines for how active matter, such as cells and microorganisms, can best be...
Innovative ways to battle Parkinson’s disease
HZDR researchers are developing a new radiotracer for differential diagnosticsCredit: HZDR / B. Tiedemann An interdisciplinary team from the Institute...
Novel photocatalytic method converts biopolyols and sugars into methanol and syngas
Credit: WANG Min A research group led by Prof. WANG Feng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the...
Celiac disease might be cured by restoring immune tolerance to gliadin
Credit: Tobias Freitag, University of Helsinki Celiac disease affects 0.3-2.4% of people in most countries world-wide, and approx. 2% in...
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