Rewiring plant defence genes to reduce crop waste
Plants can be genetically rewired to resist the devastating effects of disease - significantly reducing crop waste worldwide - according...
Cementless fly ash binder makes concrete ‘green’
Credit: Multiscale Materials Laboratory/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 18, 2018) - Rice University engineers have developed a composite binder made...
Joint paper identifies one of Mesoamerica’s last intact forest blocks
Credit: WCS NEW YORK (June 18, 2018)-- The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Yale University have created a plan to...
University of Münster awards Transfer Prize for 2 projects
(University of Münster) A brace of awards: as before, in 2016, the Rectorate of the University of Münster has again...
Research shows how a moderate dose of alcohol protects the heart
For at least 20 years, research has shown that for many people, moderate consumption of alcohol can protect the heart,...
New method to preserve boy cancer patient fertility being developed at Ben-gurion U.
NEW YORK, June 18, 2018 - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Soroka University Medical Center researchers in Beer-Sheva,...
Researchers explore whether smarter animals are bigger troublemakers
Credit: Lisa Barrett You have probably encountered a raccoon raiding the trash in your neighborhood, seen a rat scurrying through...
Neuroscientists map brain’s response to cold touch
Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have mapped the feeling of cool touch to the brain's insula in a mouse model. The...
Insilico to present latest advances in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence for drug discovery
Monday, June 18, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of next-generation artificial intelligence...
Addgene keeps flow of CRISPR plasmids fast and affordable
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 18, 2018--As a key global enabler of the revolutionary genome...
Novel information about the effects of in vitro fertilization on embryonic growth
It is known that in vitro fertilization, IVF, can affect the size of the newborns. Children derived from fresh embryo...
Five new Pew-Stewart Scholars to pursue innovative cancer research
PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust announced today the 2018 class of Pew-Stewart Scholars for...
Study suggests well-known growth suppressor actually fuels lethal brain cancers
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists report finding a potentially promising treatment target for aggressive and deadly high-grade brain cancers...
Electrical wire properties of DNA linked to cancer
One of the biggest helpers in our bodies' ongoing efforts to prevent DNA mutations--mutations that can lead to cancer--is actually...
Compilation of research discussed at the Global Forum On Nicotine: Warsaw June 16 2018
Reduced cravings for cigarettes: after 12-hours without a cigarette, smokers rated their craving at 68 out of 100. After smoking...
P.V. Danckwerts Memorial Lecture awards distinguished Professor Lee
Credit: KAIST Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering was selected as the awardee...
New articles in The CRISPR Journal
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers The CRISPR Journal, a new peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, announces...
Great white sharks dive deep into warm-water whirlpools in the Atlantic
Credit: OCEARCH It's always good to know where great white sharks are likely to be swimming. That's true if you're...
Russian scientists created ‘flying’ gas chromatograph
Credit: Samara University The basis of the airborne laboratory complex is the gas microchromatograph, developed by the scientists of Samara...
Samara scientists developed a new approach to compounds with antidiabetic activity
Credit: @SamaraPolytech Cascade reactions are often used to synthesize complex compounds. These are sequences of rapidly following one after the...
