Frankfurt University Library joins the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Frankfurt am Main, April 2018. The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg (UB JCS) in Frankfurt am Main just joined the...
Algae, impurities darken Greenland ice sheet and intensify melting
Credit: A. Hubbard/J.Ryan The Dark Zone of Greenland ice sheet is a large continuous region on the western flank of...
Visually appealing solar modules as architectural elements in building facades
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Metropolia University of Applied Sciences together with the industrial partners are investigating opportunities...
How did gonorrhea become a drug-resistant superbug?
Credit: Nicholas Lab, UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC - The bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea...
Healthy red blood cells owe their shape to muscle-like structures
Credit: Fowler Lab, The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - April 4, 2018 - Red blood cells are on...
Evan Snyder elected to Association of American Physicians
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) La Jolla, Calif., April 4, 2018 - Evan Y. Snyder, M.D., Ph.D.,...
Notre Dame researchers developing renewable energy approach for producing ammonia
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are developing a renewable energy approach for synthesizing ammonia, an essential component of...
Post-Ebola cataract surgery can safely restore vision
Credit: Steven Yeh, MD Cataract surgery can be safely performed on Ebola virus disease survivors with impaired vision, Emory Eye...
Microscopic revelations point to new blood infection therapies
Credit: Riley Brandt, University of Calgary Researchers at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) have for the...
Satellites, supercomputers, and machine learning provide real-time crop type data
Credit: Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Corn and soybean fields look similar from space - at least...
Insilico to present the advances in AI for biomarker development of human aging
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, April 4th, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of...
Boosting natural defenses to fight antibiotic-resistant pneumonia
Credit: Adobe Stock/Wikimedia Commons Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat in bacterial pneumonia. While immune-stimulating treatments can help the body...
Freedom and flexibility: Thinking outside the cell for functional genomics
Over the past two decades, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science...
Researchers test stem cell-based retinal implant for common cause of vision loss
Credit: USC Roski Eye Institute LOS ANGELES - Physicians and researchers at the USC Roski Eye Institute have collaborated with...
The great acceleration reaches new heights
An international team of researchers, including a CNRS researcher at the department of Écologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés (CNRS...
NEOMED researcher receives $2.5 million NIH grant to study Atherosclerosis
ROOTSTOWN, OHIO - Northeast Ohio Medical University researcher and professor of integrative medical sciences, Yanqiao Zhang, M.D., has received a...
There’s an allergy epidemic in Africa, and not enough specialists to deal with it
Allergies are on the rise in Africa, but with too few specialists to treat them, and a parallel increase in...
Treating vision loss
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects more than 1.75 million individuals in the United States. Because the population is aging, that...
UTHealth finds unprecedented psychological distress months after Harvey
Credit: Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth HOUSTON - (April 4, 2018) - Four months after Hurricane Harvey soaked the Houston area and...
Scoliosis surgery in children with cerebral palsy — quality of life benefits outweigh risks
April 4, 2018 - For children with severe cerebral palsy (CP), surgery for scoliosis (sideways curvature of the spine) significantly...
