Nature’s masonry: The first steps in how thin protein sheets form polyhedral shells
IMAGE: This illustration shows how hexagonal bacterial proteins (shown as ribbon-like structures at right and upper right) self-assemble into a...
Next-generation drug testing on chips
Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS Researchers at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) in Japan have designed a small...
Video game improves balance in youth with autism
Credit: Andy Manis MADISON, Wis. — Playing a video game that rewards participants for holding various "ninja" poses could help...
Elena Castro receives a Young Investigator Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation
Credit: CNIO The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) today announced its 2017 Young Investigator (YI) Awards, which support early career scientists...
Iberian Peninsula rodents migrated due to climate change 12 million years ago
Credit: Oscar Sanisidro (Vertebrate Paleontology. Biodiversitiy Institute, University of Kansas) The oldest studied rodent fauna in this work, which inhabited...
Study shows liver cells with whole genome duplications protect against cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Feb. 9, 2018 – Researchers at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute (CRI)...
UTA student receives NSF grant for research into ecological drivers of…
Credit: UTA Shannon Beston, a third-year Ph.D. student in biology at the University of Texas at Arlington, was selected to...
Change in protein production essential to muscle function
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have shed light on the process that guides the...
Special issue of Future Oncology explores the field of Oncofertility
Future Science Group (FSG) published journal, Future Oncology, has released a special issue that examines the field of oncofertility, which...
Fire ant venom compounds may lead to skin treatments
Credit: From Arbiser et al Scientific Reports (2017). Compounds derived from fire ant venom can reduce skin thickening and inflammation...
Some birds better than others at adjusting to habitat degradation
Credit: M.C. Sagario Before habitat degradation from impacts like grazing begins to cause population declines, the first response by wildlife...
Sustainable amine production through hydrogenation of amides under…
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan–Amines are vital in nature; for example, amino acids — the building blocks of proteins and...
Countries across Africa, Asia-Pacific vulnerable to Zika virus, new…
TORONTO, Sept. 1, 2016–Parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific region may be vulnerable to outbreaks of the Zika virus, including...
Bones of obese children may be in trouble, UGA study finds
Athens, Ga. – Studies have shown that obese children tend to have more muscle, but recent University of Georgia research...
Migration ranges of flying birds depend on body size and flight style
Credit: NIPR The decades-long tracking of flying birds reveals that body size and flight styles determine the scale of birds'...
Elderly who have trouble identifying odors face risk of dementia
Credit: Rob Kozloff, for the University of Chicago Medicine A long-term study of nearly 3,000 adults, aged 57 to 85,...
Four synchronized planets reveal clues to how planets form
The search for planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy has revealed an extraordinary family of planets whose orbits are...
Study shows liver cells with whole genome duplications protect against cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Feb. 9, 2018 – Researchers at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute (CRI)...
Blood test plus ultrasound boosts liver cancer detection by 40 percent
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Feb. 9, 2018 – Combining ultrasound imaging with a blood test for high...
Scrib protein identified as a natural suppressor of liver cancer
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (May 8, 2017) – A protein that typically helps keep cells organized and on task...
