Researchers receive $1 million for project challenging long-standing…
Credit: Haga-Yamanaka lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside, seeking to...
Largest Ichthyosaurus was pregnant mother
Credit: copyright of Joschua Knüppe. Scientists from the UK and Germany have discovered the largest Ichthyosaurus on record and found...
NASA encourages kids to Train Like an Astronaut
Credit: Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut Mission X: Train like an Astronaut, since its inception in 2011, has morphed...
Underwater acoustic localization of marine mammals and vehicles
Credit: @IMDEA Networks Institute Researchers at IMDEA Networks (Spain) in collaboration with University of Haifa (Israel) have developed an underwater...
On the way to a biological alternative
Credit: Graphic: Oliver Einsle The research team of Prof. Dr. Oliver Einsle at the University of Freiburg's Institute of Biochemistry...
People trying quit smoking don’t always focus on tobacco…
Credit: UBC Fifty per cent of statements made by smokers during counselling sessions designed to help them stop have nothing...
Taste, not appearance, drives corals to eat plastics
Credit: Alex Seymour, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. — Scientists have long known that marine animals mistakenly eat plastic debris because...
Study of wild plants contribute to understanding of high risks…
Credit: Elizabeth Waters New research, published today in Botany, investigates how well native California wild mustard species withstand increasing temperatures...
CSU uses test for chronic wasting disease to study brain ailments in people
Credit: CSU Photography Wildlife disease experts at Colorado State University are investigating whether a test developed to detect early-stage chronic...
NIH scientists and collaborators find prion protein in skin of CJD patients
Credit: Case Western Reserve University National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and collaborators at Case Western Reserve University School of...
Researchers discover how selenium is incorporated into proteins
Credit: Miljan Simonovic. Humans need eight essential trace elements for good health, and one of them is selenium – a...
UTSW identify process cells use to destroy damaged organelles, with…
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Dec. 22, 2016 – Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered the...
Sniffing out stem cell fates in the nose
Credit: Russell Fletcher & John Ngai, UC Berkeley Adult stem cells have the ability to transform into many types of...
Cells pumping iron to prevent anemia
Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan — Maintaining a good balance of iron in the body is necessary for health: too...
Workbench for virus design
Credit: Dr Graham Beards Bacteriophages, known informally as phages, are viruses that can attack and kill specific bacteria. They occur...
Will mallards hybridize their cousins out of existence?
Credit: Gary Kramer/USFWS (public domain) Mallards — the familiar green-headed ducks of city parks — are one of a group...
Dino hips discovery unravels species riddle
Credit: Julius Csotonyi New research from University of Alberta paleontologists shows one of North America's most broadly identified dinosaur species,...
Pitt and UPMC researchers collaborate to save more organs for transplants
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (October 30, 2017) … Each year, the United States suffers an extreme shortage of...
Army medicine opens the door for vision prosthetic prototypes
Army medical research funding has supported the development of innovative technologies to assist injured Service members and improve their quality...
Russian scientists plot antibiotic resistance on a world map
Credit: Bioinformatics Russian scientists have created an interactive world map of human gut microbiota potential to resist antibiotics (resistome). Their...
