Childhood cancer survivors have higher risk of deadly heart disease in pregnancy
Vienna, Austria - 27 May 2018: Girls who survive cancer have a higher risk of developing a deadly heart disease...
UNIST professors honored with government awards
Credit: UNIST Two faculty members in the School of Urban and Enviornmental Engineering at UNIST are being honored with prestigious...
New method for finding disease-susceptibility genes
Credit: UNIST A new study, affiliated with UNIST has recently presented a novel statistical algorithm, capable of identifying potential disease...
Triggers of acute heart failure vary globally
Vienna, Austria - 26 May 2018: Triggers of acute heart failure vary globally, according to late breaking results from the...
89 percent of the Moscow University Herbarium have been digitized in the last three years
Credit: Moscow University Herbarium A senior researcher of the Moscow University Herbarium published in Taxon journal the results of his...
How scientists analyze cell membranes
Credit: © L. Rakers et al./Cell Chem Biol Exchange of material and information at the level of individual cells requires...
Top nitrogen researchers imagine world beyond fossil fuels
Credit: US Department of Energy LOGAN, UTAH, USA -- Freeways choked with traffic, supermarkets laden with fertilizer-grown stock from distance...
New chromosome study can lead to personalized counseling of pregnant women
Foetuses with a so-called new balanced chromosomal aberration have a higher risk of developing brain disorders such as autism and...
A genetic algorithm predicts the vertical growth of cities
Credit: Ivan Pazos et al. The increase of skyscrapers in a city resembles the development of some living systems. Spanish...
‘Deforestation-free’ palm oil not as simple as it sounds
Genuinely 'deforestation-free' palm oil products are problematic to guarantee, according to a new study. Palm oil is a vegetable oil...
Currents propel the spreading of invasive jellyfish
When the American comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi, also known as sea walnut, conquered the Black Sea as a new habitat...
MSU-based molecular biologists compared human and yeast FACT
Credit: Maria Valieva Today, scientists extensively study FACT - a protein complex that plays a role in DNA packing within...
89% of the Moscow University Herbarium have been digitised in the last three years
Credit: Moscow University Herbarium A senior researcher of the Moscow University Herbarium published in Taxon journal the results of his...
Researchers identify bacteria and viruses ejected from the ocean
Credit: Christina McCluskey/Colorado St. Univ. Certain types of bacteria and viruses are readily ejected into the atmosphere when waves break...
How do insects survive on a sugary diet?
Credit: DANIEL VILLAFRUELA (CC BY 4.0) RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- There's a reason parents tell their kids to lay off the...
Low-cost membrane cleans up light and heavy oils in a single step
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a low-cost membrane that effectively separates oil and water on demand...
NSF-Simons centers to search for the Rules of Life
Credit: Northwestern University The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the Simons Foundation, has launched four new centers to...
Biosensor technologies to offer more effective approaches to disease treatment
Credit: Steve Morton Every cell in our bodies is shaped by its outer coating, or biomembrane. This incredible, naturally created...
Why bioelectrodes for energy conversion are not stable
Credit: RUB, Kramer Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have discovered why bioelectrodes containing the photosynthesis protein complex photosystem I are...
Faster genome evolution methods to transform yeast for industrial biotechnology
Credit: DAI Junbiao Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae,...
