One hundred percent success
Credit: Photo: Jürgen Gocke It is a major boost to cutting-edge research in Freiburg: in the current Excellence Strategy competition,...
Jena’s research cluster ‘Balance of the Microverse’ to be funded in the Excellence Strategy
Credit: (Source: Sandor Nietzsche, Susanne Linde/EMZ Jena; photo edited by: Mario Kapitan) Jena (27 September 2018) The Friedrich Schiller University...
DNA vaccine targets family of tumor antigens & shows promise for cancer immunotherapy
PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 27, 2018) -- Scientists at The Wistar Institute have implemented a novel structurally designed synthetic DNA vaccine...
Leading coral scientists to convene in a coordinated effort to save coral reefs
From December 9 - 14, 2018, dozens of the world's top coral reef experts will convene in Florida in an...
Did key building blocks for life come from deep space?
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms on Earth...
Silver fox study reveals genetic clues to social behavior
Credit: Darya Shepeleva ITHACA, N.Y. - In 1959, Russian scientists began an experiment to breed a population of silver foxes,...
A protein prevents plants from premature flowering
Credit: ©UNIGE / Marc Heijde The induction of flowering is of major importance from an ecological and agronomic point of...
Viruses discern, destroy E. coli in drinking water
Credit: Sam Nugen/Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - To rapidly detect the presence of E. coli in drinking water, Cornell University...
A simple measurement of abdominal obesity
In obesity research, the body mass index (BMI) has been traditionally used to determine if an individual is normal weight,...
Method to determine oxidative age could show how aging affects nanomaterial’s properties
Credit: Lara Bogart WASHINGTON, D.C., September 27, 2018 -- Iron oxide nanoparticles are used in sentinel node detection, iron replacement...
In the battle of cats vs. rats, the rats are winning
The first study to document interactions between feral cats and a wild rat colony finds that contrary to popular opinion,...
Scientists show polar ‘polynya’ supported marine life during last Ice Age
Credit: Matthias Forwick However, there was a small ice-free 'polynya' between the frozen continents and the open ocean where microscopic...
Despite restaurant pledges, most kids receive unhealthy items with fast-food kids’ meals
Credit: Bill Kelly, Kelly Design Company Hartford, Conn. - A new study of parents' fast-food restaurant purchases for their children...
Big increase in economic costs if cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are delayed
Stronger efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases should be undertaken if global warming of more than 1.5 Celsius degrees...
Tomatoes ‘mixing chemical cocktails’: Early detection of disease resistance in food crops
Credit: Esiul at Pixabay CC0 Creative Commons Bacterial wilt devastates food crops all over the world. It destroys major crop...
New screening tool can improve the quality of life for epilepsy patients with sleep apnea
Credit: Nick Romanenko / Rutgers University Rutgers researchers have developed a tool to help neurologists screen for obstructive sleep apnea...
Trial participation among factors influencing risk of relapse in AYA leukemia patients
Bottom Line: Adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were significantly more likely to relapse than...
GARDP and Novartis partner to reduce child deaths from drug-resistant infections
Agreement focuses on further enhancing generic antibiotics and increasing access for children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) Development will...
Educating the next generation of medical professionals with machine learning is essential
(Boston)--Artificial intelligence (AI) driven by machine learning (ML) algorithms is a branch in the field of computer science that is...
Enhanced rehab for stroke doubles movement recovery
A novel therapy technique invented by researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has been shown in a pilot...
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