Mount Sinai recognized for excellence in mitochondrial care
Credit: Mitochondrial Care Network (MCN) New York, NY (October 29, 2018) -- The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai...
Study: Coal power plant regulations neglect a crucial pollutant
HOUSTON - (Oct. 29, 2018) - Cleaning up or replacing coal-fired power plants that lack sulfur pollution controls could help...
UC San Diego signs MOU with Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe
Credit: FBRI The University of California San Diego and the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe (FBRI) have...
SwRI improves structural health monitoring with magnetostrictive transducer
Credit: Image Courtesy of Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Oct. 29, 2018 -- A new, more powerful generation of...
Illinois study provides whole-system view of plant cold stress
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - When temperatures drop, plants can't bundle up. Stuck outside, exposed,...
Plant-based ‘road salt’ good for highways but not for insects
New Orleans (October 29, 2018)--Beet juice deicer, a natural alternative to road salt that is considered to be an eco-friendlier...
Crystals that clean natural gas
Credit: © 2018 KAUST Removing the troublesome impurities of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2) from natural gas could...
Beyond 1984: narrow focus on wildfire trends underestimates future risks to water security
Credit: Chris Brown/Utah State University Dramatic increases in wildfire over the last few decades have garnered considerable media attention. Numerous...
New platform based on biology and nanotechnology carries mRNA directly to target cells
Credit: Nuphar Veiga/American Friends of Tel Aviv University. Delivering an effective therapeutic payload to specific target cells with few adverse...
Hidden costs of disease to greater Yellowstone elk
Credit: Mark Gocke/Wyoming Game and Fish Department For decades researchers have known that a bacterial disease in elk, bison and...
Study sheds light on why a warmer world may equal a wetter Arctic
Credit: Douglas Levere / University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the...
Deconstructing the superfood that determines honeybee hierarchy
Katharina Paschinger's father, a conservation chemist in Vienna, was a devoted beekeeper. Paschinger remembers fondly that he would bring royal...
Imaging collaboration sheds new light on cancer growth
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have uncovered new insights into how the normal...
Anti-cancer virus fits tumor receptor like a ‘key in a lock’
Credit: OIST and University of Otago Seneca Valley Virus sounds like the last bug you'd want to catch, but it...
RNA-protein network may explain why melanoma grows more
Credit: Nobuhiro Takahashi With 5-year survival rates being around 30% for patients with distant metastatic disease, cutaneous melanoma is the...
Cancer’s most deadly assassin exists in every cell
Kill code is triggered by chemotherapy Potential to trigger kill code without using chemotherapy, avoiding side effects 'I want to...
Biologists discover source for boosting tumor cell drug sensitivity
Credit: Manqing Li, Michael David Lab, UC San Diego DNA-damaging agents, or "DDAs," make up the most widely used group...
Secrets of mighty cancer killing virus unlocked by Otago researchers
Credit: Mihnea Bostina University of Otago researchers have used high-resolution electron microscopy images to reveal how an anti-cancer virus interacts...
New drug candidates reverse drug resistance in multiple myeloma in preclinical models
Credit: Dr. Reeder Robinson of the Medical University of South Carolina In an article published online October 12, 2018 by...
Hormone-blocking injections reduce early menopause from breast cancer treatment
Credit: Cleveland Clinic Final results of SWOG Cancer Research Network's groundbreaking international Prevention of Early Menopause Study (POEMS) clinical trial...
