Scientists use machine learning to ID source of Salmonella
Quick identification of animal source key to stopping foodborne illness outbreaksCredit: UGA A team of scientists led by researchers at...
VA pushing medical research and inventions to private sector
Hundreds of VA inventions available through license agreementsCredit: Eugene Russell/VA The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced on Monday a...
Researchers identify brain protein crucial to recovery from stroke
Credit: Steven Graham/University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Feb. 11, 2019 - Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a...
Keeping SDGs from being a zero-sum game
Credit: Jordan Noble, Michigan State University Center for System Integration and Sustainability Even as the world gets on the same...
How your smartphone is affecting your relationship
Smartphones have become a constant companion for many of us. In a recent study by the Pew Research Center, nearly...
New study shows HPV not likely transmittable through the hand
Researchers seek to answer longstanding debate Commonly known as HPV, Human papillomavirus is a virus that infects the skin and...
Brazil will have the technology to transplant pig organs into humans
Gene-edited pigs may reduce Brazil's transplant waiting list; still in its initial stages and presented at FAPESP Week London, a...
Machine learning algorithm helps in the search for new drugs
Researchers have designed a machine learning algorithm for drug discovery which has been shown to be twice as efficient as...
New tuberculosis drug may shorten treatment time for patients
Washington, DC - February 11, 2019 - A new experimental antibiotic for tuberculosis has been shown to be more effective...
Study of Arctic fishes reveals the birth of a gene — from 'junk'
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Though separated by a world of ocean, and unrelated to each other, two...
Research offensive on regenerative fuels
Start of the project 'reFuels -- Re-thinking Fuels' -- State Transport Minister Hermann: 'Fuel Production with the Help of Renewable...
Breaking the vicious cycles of age-related diseases
Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office Biologist Aleksey Belikov from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology has proposed that rapid progression...
Sophisticated blood analysis provides new clues about Ebola, treatment avenues
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease A detailed analysis of blood samples from Ebola patients in Sierra Leone...
Butterfly monitoring project will enable improvements to Europe's environment
Research on population trends will inform EU biodiversity and agricultural policiesCredit: Martin Warren A major new EU Pilot Project will...
Human brain protein associated with autism confers abnormal behavior in fruit flies
The human dopamine transporter protein is missing a single amino acidCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A mutant gene that encodes...
The widow next door: Where is the globally invasive noble false widow settling next?
Credit: Rainer Breitling Spiders are one of the most successful groups of 'invaders' on the planet. Out of over 47,000...
Changes in lung cells seen almost immediately after contact with low-molecular weight PAHs
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center It is well known that exposure to high-molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) increases...
Defending Darwin: Scientists respond to attack on evolution
Science magazine, the country's top scientific journal, has taken the rare step of publishing criticism of a new book. The...
Virginia Tech investigates how Honduran youth respond to crime and violence
Credit: Virginia Tech Unemployment, poverty, and violence have driven many Honduran youth to the U.S. and Mexico borders in search...
Researchers identify early home and family factors that contribute to obesity
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 11, 2019--A new 21-year longitudinal study identified multiple risk factors...
