Resistance to drug of last resort found in farm animals in US
Washington, DC - Dec. 5, 2016 - Carbapenems are one of the most important classes of antibiotics used in humans,...
Fish fossils reveal how tails evolved, Penn professor finds
Credit: John Megahan Despite their obvious physical differences, elephants, lizards and trout all have something in common. They possess elongated,...
Gene editing yields tomatoes that flower and ripen weeks earlier
Credit: Lippman lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Using a simple and powerful genetic method to tweak genes native...
A new dead zone in the Indian Ocean could impact future marine nutrient balance
Credit: SDU Large areas of the global ocean, so called marine "dead zones" contain no oxygen and support microbial processes...
Age of world’s worshipers could shape global issues
NEW YORK (December 5, 2016)--The relative portion of older adherents to the world's religions will shift in the coming decades,...
3-D solutions to energy savings in silicon power transistors
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology In electronics, lower power consumption leads to operation cost savings, environmental benefits and the convenience...
Safer, less vulnerable software is the goal of new NIST computer publication
Credit: Hanacek / NIST We can create software with 100 times fewer vulnerabilities than we do today, according to computer...
$434,000 to environmental humanities
Credit: Stefan Holgersson The Seed Box, Sweden's largest research programme in the environmental humanities, is now allocating grants to researchers,...
Availability of human food shortens and disrupts bears’ hibernation
Credit: Journal of Zoology With winter approaching, bears all over the world are getting ready to hibernate. New research suggests...
Protein synthesis: Ribosome recycling as a drug target
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers have elucidated a mechanism that recycles bacterial ribosomes stalled on messenger RNAs that lack termination...
Flowers use physics to attract pollinators
Credit: New Phytologist A new review indicates that flowers may be able to manipulate the laws of physics, by playing...
Researchers stress the need for research on Ebola virus disease in great apes
Credit: Mammal Review Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a threat to human health, but it also threatens the survival of...
Kids’ restaurant menu items often include excess calories
Most kids' menu items offered by the nation's top 200 restaurant chains exceed the calorie counts recommended by nutrition experts,...
New compound targets TB bacterium’s defense against the immune system
Credit: Sello Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Part of the reason tuberculosis-causing bacteria are so good at colonizing...
How will electronic medical records and patient portals change patient care
Healthcare Transformation (), a breakthrough new peer-reviewed, open access journalzine spearheaded by Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA, President, Thomas Jefferson University...
£60 million boost to strengthen the UK’s manufacturing base through 6 new research hubs
(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Six new £10 million research hubs that will explore and improve new manufacturing techniques...
No safe level of smoking
People who consistently smoked an average of less than one cigarette per day over their lifetime had a 64 percent...
Moffitt Cancer Center study shows promising clinical activity
TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 5, 2016) - Immune cellular therapy is a promising new area of cancer treatment. Anti-cancer therapeutics, such...
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons announces official open access journal
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), a global leader in orthopaedic surgical education, is announcing the forthcoming launch of...
Babies’ first words can be predicted based on visual attention, IU study finds
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University psychologists have shown that a baby's most likely first words are based...