Coral reef scientist receives royal honor
Credit: Credit: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies/ James Kerry The exemplary research of Distinguished Professor Terry Hughes,...
UT Institute of Agriculture announces new Herbert College of Agriculture
Credit: UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees formally announced today the new Herbert College of...
Miniature testing of drug pairs on tumor biopsies
Credit: IMAGE - Ramesh Utharala, EMBL Combinations of cancer drugs can be quickly and cheaply tested on tumour cells using...
Low-cost plastic sensors could monitor a range of health conditions
Credit: KAUST An international team of researchers have developed a low-cost sensor made from semiconducting plastic that can be used...
When low batteries are a good thing
Credit: Špela Konjar, iMM. Every day the human gut works on a fine-tuned balance that ensures the retention of essential...
First step to lasting wheat health
Substantial reductions in a deadly root disease of wheat crops and corresponding increases in yields of grain and straw mark...
About face: Special collection of papers celebrates research on how the human face forms
Credit: Peter Claes and Mark D. Shriver Our faces can reveal a lot about us, and now scientists are revealing...
GA4GH streaming API htsget a bridge to the future for modern genomic data processing
HINXTON, United Kingdom (June 22, 2018) -- The Large Scale Genomics Work Stream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and...
Nuclear Engineering expert honored by Health Physics Society
Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Nuclear engineering expert George Xu, the Edward E. Hood Jr. Endowed Chair of Engineering at Rensselaer...
Hydrangeas, the strange color-changing flowers (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 22, 2018 -- Savvy gardeners know that they can adjust the color of...
Decellularized cartilage-based scaffold promotes bone regeneration at fracture site
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 22, 2018--To help prevent possible complications such as nonunion at...
Office of Naval Research invests in Purdue battery safety technology
Credit: Purdue University image/Vincent Walter WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Fundamental Purdue University research on making batteries safer has been targeted...
The advances of Blockchain for Healthcare to be presented at the Basel Life Conference
Friday, June 22, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of artificial intelligence for...
An emerging drug discovery approach to combat cancer
According to the World Cancer Report 2014, cancer accounted for 14.6% of all human deaths in 2012, equal to 8.2...
Starving fungi could save millions of lives each year
Credit: Carlos Furtado, Western Sydney Local Health District Researchers have identified a potentially new approach to treating lethal fungal infections...
The FASEB Journal: Gender-specific differences in intestinal lining
A new study published online in The FASEB Journal pinpoints several gender-specific differences in intestinal environment that could be significant...
Miniature testing of drug pairs on tumour biopsies
Credit: IMAGE - Ramesh Utharala, EMBL Combinations of cancer drugs can be quickly and cheaply tested on tumour cells using...
Mosquito-borne diseases in Europe: Containment strategy depends on when the alarm sets off
Credit: Paolo Tonato The arrival of travelers infected by mosquito-borne pathogens, coming from endemic regions can trigger sustained autochthonous transmission...
Important step towards a computer model that predicts the outcome of eye diseases
Credit: Drinnenberg et al Our eye hosts a powerful biological computer, the retina. Understanding how the retina transforms images from...
Yellowstone’s ‘landscape of fear’ not so scary after all
Credit: Credit: Chad Wildermuth LOGAN, UTAH, USA- After wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s, some scientists...
