Six transformations needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals: New report
The World in 2050 (TWI2050) initiative has launched a new report, setting out six key transformations that will enable the...
That sound makes me dizzy
Credit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering For some people, certain sounds like a trumpet blowing a particular tone...
Wetting of surfaces is surprisingly difficult to measure reliably
Credit: Mika Latikka / Aalto University Knowing how surface materials interact with liquids is crucial to everything from printing to...
JST releases ‘TogoVar’, an integrated database for Japanese genome variants/variations
Credit: Japan Science and Technology Agency Japanese medical genome researchers had long been suffering from the lack of publicly available...
Towards winning the war on feral wild rabbits
New research shows how two biological control agents have been effective in reducing the numbers of feral rabbits in Australia....
Want to be an elite weightlifter? It takes a strong pair of knees
London, July 10, 2018 -- Researchers from China's Ningbo University have discovered what makes the critical difference between an elite...
Revealing the mechanism behind animals’ sixth sense
Credit: Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) An international team of researcher, led by Professor Kyuhyung Kim from...
Unique brain ‘fingerprint’ can predict drug effectiveness
Credit: Yasser Iturria Medina Personalized medicine - delivering therapies specially tailored to a patient's unique physiology - has been a...
Alternative splicing is crucial to muscle mass maintenance
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Despite the importance that changes in muscle mass have in aging, overall body metabolism and...
Altered gene regulation is more widespread in cancer than expected
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A large-scale study provides new insights into the mechanisms that can lead to cancer. It...
Biologists discover process that neutralizes tumors
Credit: Hui Lab, UC San Diego Researchers from the University of California San Diego have identified an unexpected mechanism that...
Fishy chemicals in farmed salmon
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/Carla Ng PITTSBURGH (July 10, 2018) ... Persistent organic pollutants--or POPs--skulk around the environment threatening human...
Asian residents are exposed to 9 times more air pollution than Americans or Europeans
According to the World Health Organisation, about 88 percent of premature deaths in low- and middle-income countries in Asia can...
As brain extracts meaning from vision, study tracks progression of processing
Here's the neuroscience of a neglected banana (and a lot of other things in daily life): whenever you look at...
Developmental screening and surveillance rates remain low, new study suggests
Only about one-third of young children in the U.S. receive recommended screenings or surveillance designed to catch developmental delays. Findings...
Mapping the genetic controllers in heart disease
Researchers have developed a 3D map of the gene interactions that play a key role in cardiovascular disease, a study...
Brain metastases common and difficult to treat in ROS1 lung cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Increasingly, doctors are treating lung cancer based on the genetic rearrangements driving the disease....
Isotopia Co. and Bar-Ilan U. developing new method for diagnosis and treatment of cancer
The Israeli Isotopia Company, in collaboration with Prof. Rachela Popovtzer of Bar-Ilan University, is conducting a joint study to develop...
Peering deep into the cell to reveal essential components in cell division
Tsukuba, Japan - The cell is the basic biological unit of all known living organisms, and the core of the...
Isolation and characterization of key enzyme for ephedrine production
CALGARY, Canada, July 10, 2018 -Epimeron, Inc., a world-class provider of gene discovery and biosynthetic pathway optimization, today announced the...
