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Competition results have been announced The winners are as follows: Ramil Nasibullin, Associate Professor, Department of the Theory of Functions...

First-confirmed occurrence of a lambeosaurine dinosaur found on Alaska’s North Slope

Paper published in Scientific Reports describes paleontologists' unearthing part of a skull, illustrating that there is much to learn about...

Introducing a kinder, gentler way to blow holes in cells

For injecting CRISPR-Cas9 into cells, new technique is more efficient, simpler and cheaperCredit: Yuhong Cao, UC Berkeley When scientists attempt...

Just add heat to open this tiny box

Nanocubes automatically connect, disassemble at different temperaturesCredit: Zhan et al. 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09495-1 Researchers have designed two types of nano-sized...

A new model to trial preventative treatments for schizophrenia

Neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have developed a new animal model of schizophrenia that will enable researchers around the...

Fluorescence discovered in tiny Brazilian frogs

New finding by NYU Abu Dhabi researchers published in the journal Scientific ReportsCredit: NYU Abu Dhabi Postdoctoral Associate Sandra Goutte...

Movement toward a poop test for liver cirrhosis

In a study of people with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and their twins and other close relatives, UC San Diego...

Smoking and pre-eclampsia may cause fertility problems for offspring, study suggests

Low levels of oxygen in the womb - which can be caused by smoking or conditions such as pre-eclampsia -...

Quantum physics and origami for the ultimate get-well card

Scientists have combined the simplicity of paper with the complexity of quantum physics for point-of-care testing in low-resource environmentsCredit: Prof....

Cancer researchers highlight clinical potential of liquid biopsy using droplet digital PCR technology at the 2019 AACR Annual Meeting

Atlanta-March 29, 2019-New research demonstrating the clinical utility of Bio-Rad's Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) powered liquid biopsy will be presented...

Pain, pain go away: new tools improve students’ experience of school-based vaccines

Student-centered support tools reduce vaccine-associated pain, fear, and fainting during school-based clinicsLearn about how to reduce pain, fear and dizziness...

Binding affinities of perfluoroalkyl substances to Baikal seal PPARα

In vitro/in silico evaluations of binding affinities of perfluoroalkyl substances to Baikal seal PPARαCredit: Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES),...

Air quality to remain a problem in India despite pollution control policies

According to an independent study released today by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Council on...

New model predicts substantial reduction of malaria transmitting mosquitoes

The role of mosquitoes in spreading malaria is the biggest factor behind a recent study that found them to be...

New way of designing systems against correlated disruptions uses negative probability

Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In March of 2011, a powerful earthquake off...

Dr. Lauren Ferrante, critical care expert, becomes inaugural Hurria awardee at #AGS19

Bacteria partners with virus to cause chronic wounds, Stanford study finds

A common bacterial pathogen called Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces a virus that substantially increases the pathogen's ability to infect us, according...

Modelled climate change impact on mosquito-borne virus transmission

Credit: NIAID (CC BY 2.0, 2016) Mosquito-borne viruses, such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, already threaten over a billion people...

New Yorkers brace for self-cloning Asian longhorned tick

Columbia researchers warn that NYC's Asian longhorned tick population is larger than previously knownCredit: Center for Disease Control and Prevention...

Novel brain map tracks early brain atrophy from HIV infection