New-generation material removes iodine from water
Credit: Chenfeng Ke / Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. – June 7, 2017- Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a new...
Growing gold: Researchers develop gold nanowires for biomedical procedures
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. — Grown like a snowflake and sharpened with a sewing machine, a novel device...
High yield, protein with soybean gene
Credit: Brian Diers Leftovers can be quite valuable. For instance, when soybean seed is crushed and the oil extracted, what's...
UBC study finds family-friendly overpasses are needed to help grizzly…
Credit: UBC Okanagan Researchers have determined how female grizzly bears keep their cubs safe while crossing the Trans-Canada Highway. Adam...
Sticking sugar to protein
Credit: Julia Kowal / ETH Zurich Whenever cells receive signals, interact with other cells or identify viruses and bacteria, the...
Active genetics technology opens new horizons
Credit: Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego Publications In 2015, University of California San Diego biologists Ethan Bier and Valentino Gantz...
Brazil’s environmental licensing under threat
In a paper published in Science this week, Philip M. Fearnside of Brazil's National Institute for Research in Amazonia (INPA)...
Incredible images reveal bacteria motor parts in unprecedented detail
Many bacteria swim using flagella – long tails that are attached to tiny motors made of proteins, just tens of...
Evidence-based action for a competitive, green and trusted European…
Credit: EU, 2017 Today the European Commission introduces a package of measures seeking to reconcile the ambition of world-leading environmental...
Study highlights new link between gene fusion and bladder and brain…
Credit: University of Warwick Previously overlooked section of fusion found to worsen cancer cells Scientists finds section acts like a...
UC biologist looks at butterflies to help solve human infertility
Credit: Nathan Morehouse When insects skip the light fandango their romantic foreplay often involves some pretty crazy things like hypnotic...
Australian study uses new technique to challenge brain development hypothesis
Credit: Courtesy Dr. Vera Weisbecker A new study involving The University of Queensland, which might be useful for biomedical research,...
Study finds shark fins & meat contain high levels of neurotoxins…
Credit: Photo: Neil Hammerschlag, Ph.D. Graphics: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine MIAMI–In a new study, University of Miami...
Warbler genomes look to be 99.97 percent alike
For decades, conservationists have considered blue-winged warblers to be a threat to golden-winged warblers, a species being considered for federal...
Sticking sugar to protein
Credit: Julia Kowal / ETH Zurich Whenever cells receive signals, interact with other cells or identify viruses and bacteria, the...
Women seen as younger when eyes, lips and eyebrows stand out
Credit: Aurélie Porcheron Aspects of facial contrast, a measure of how much facial features stand out in the face, decrease...
In vitro fertilization linked with increased risk of congenital heart defects
A new analysis of published studies found a 45% increased risk of congenital heart defects in newborns when women become...
Biologists taught infusoria to fight poisons
Credit: Anatoliy Inozemtsev A team of scientists from the Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov Moscow State University and Laboratory of...
Wood frogs research clarifies risks posed to animals by warming climate
Credit: Staci Amburgey, Penn State As conditions warm, fish and wildlife living at the southern edge of their species' ranges...
Tufts University nutrition scientists provide updated MyPlate for…
BOSTON (March 7, 2016)–Nutrition scientists at the Jean Mayer U. S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging...
