Graphene-based neural probes probe brain activity in high resolution
Credit: ICN2 Measuring brain activity with precision is essential to developing further understanding of diseases such as epilepsy and disorders...
Friction shapes zebrafish embryos
Credit: IST Austria A simple ball of cells is the starting point for humans -- and zebrafish. At the end...
Nanocages dramatically facilitate structure formation of biomolecules
Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS Macromolecules regularly fold and unfold themselves inside cells. Their diverse three-dimensional structures help determine their functions....
New rice strain could help farmers predetermine harvest time
Credit: 2017 Takeshi Izawa. A new strain of rice that flowers within a certain period of time after being sprayed...
New tool allows analysis of single-cell RNA data in pre-malignant tumours
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists and their collaborators have developed a new analysis tool that was able to show, for...
Scientists discover mechanism that causes cancer cells to self-destruct
Many cancer patients struggle with the adverse effects of chemotherapy, still the most prescribed cancer treatment. For patients with pancreatic...
Stars born in winds from supermassive black holes
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Observations using ESO's Very Large Telescope have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out...
Enzyme structures illuminate mechanism behind bacteria’s bioremediation prowess
MADISON, Wis. -- Bacteria, like humans and animals, must eat. Sometimes, they consume a pollutant in the environment that humans...
Improving memory with magnets
Credit: Philippe Albouy The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds, is incredibly important to our daily...
Tracking real-time proton induced radiation chemistry in water
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2017 -- Proton therapy is a promising form of radiation treatment used to kill cancerous cells...
Protein transport: The quickest route to the tip
According to a theoretical model developed by physicists of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, in cell protrusions, cargo-transporting motor proteins often...
Rocks that tell our industrial history
Credit: Nikole Arrieta / UPV/EHU "Because certain geological events record everything, studying them helps to reconstruct the environmental past and...
Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab challenges high school students to give hacking a try
Loading video... Credit: Carnegie Mellon University CyLab PITTSBURGH -- Carnegie Mellon University aims to build a talent pipeline into the...
Scientists overcome inaccessibility of caves through molecular genetic approach
An international group of scientists has used a novel highly sensitive method for detection of environmental DNA in groundwater to...
Litter is present throughout the world’s oceans: 1,220 species affected
Where is marine litter concentrated, and which species and ecosystems does it affect? Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have...
Unique wheat passes the test
Stronger legs in fast-growing broilers, reduced phosphorus emissions to the environment, improved health for undernourished populations in developing countries and...
How do we get young men in vocational schools to eat healthy?
It is well-documented that young people in vocational schools eat less healthy than students in upper secondary schools, and many...
Hydrogen production: This is how green algae assemble their enzymes
Credit: RUB, Kramer Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have analysed how green algae manufacture complex components of a hydrogen-producing enzyme. The...
SETAC Europe 27th Annual Meeting
Brussels--The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe 27th Annual Meeting will draw 2,000 scientists from more than 60...
The first crowdfunded study in Japan: Micro X-ray observation of a fleshy brittle star
Credit: Masanori Okanishi Not only have scientists from Japan performed the first non-destructive morphological observations on the Fleshy brittle star,...
