Integrated lab-on-a-chip uses smartphone to quickly detect multiple pathogens
Credit: Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at...
WSU researcher links salmon sex to geological change
Credit: Photo by Carson Jeffres PULLMAN, Wash. - It turns out that sex can move mountains. A Washington State University...
Feel fuller, longer with mushrooms
Redwood Shores, CA (Oct. 19, 2017) - If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, then mushrooms may...
Benson Hill launches gene editing system
LONDON, UK. -- October 19, 2017 -- Benson Hill Biosystems, an agricultural technology company dedicated to unlocking the natural genetic...
Researchers demonstrate new ways to achieve selectivity for biomarkers in bioelectronics
Credit: University of Arizona Engineers at the University of Arizona have experimentally verified the electrochemical processes that control charge transfer...
Fossil coral reefs show sea level rose in bursts during last warming
Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute HOUSTON -- (Oct. 19, 2017) -- Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Harte...
An international consortium identifies the breast cancer patients who would benefit from a treatment
Credit: IRB Barcelona Physicians currently have no tools to help them detect breast cancer patients who will suffer metastasis, a...
Phages are an effective alternative to the use of antibiotics in aquaculture
Credit: AZTI-Tecnalia Therapy with phages, instead of antibiotics, is a highly promising option in aquaculture to control the transfer of...
Patients suffering injuries in low & middle-income countries have higher prevalence of HIV
Both HIV and injury are major public health problems, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the majority of...
Impact of Amazonian hydropower is ‘significantly underestimated’, study finds
Credit: University of Stirling The environmental impact of hydropower generation in the Amazon may be greater than predicted, according to...
MDC receives funding to collaborate on Human Cell Atlas
Credit: Credit: Gotthardt Lab, MDC The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin is participating as a research...
A surprise new butterflyfish is described from the Philippine ‘twilight zone’ and exhibit
Credit: © 2017 Luiz Rocha and the California Academy of Sciences SAN FRANCISCO (Oct. 19, 2017) -- A newly described...
Svante Pääbo to receive the 2018 HFSP Nakasone Award
(Human Frontier Science Program) Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) was the 2018...
Ice stream retreats under a cold climate
Credit: Niels J. Korsgaard Why did the Jakobshavn Isbræ ice stream in West Greenland retreat under a cold climate period...
Forest fires on the rise as JRC study warns of danger to air quality
Credit: EU, 2017 The JRC's annual forest fires report confirms a trend towards longer and more intense fire seasons in...
Dogs are more expressive when someone is looking
Dogs produce more facial expressions when humans are looking at them, according to new research from the University of Portsmouth....
Creating a better RNA switch
If scientists could precisely regulate gene expression, they could turn off the genes responsible for illness and disease and turn...
Veterans study reports reduction in suicide ideation after HBOT
New Orleans, LA - A pilot case control study of veterans of the US armed forces with mild traumatic brain...
USDA helps small businesses develop new agricultural products, technology
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 18, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...
Specialized communication narratives help couples deal with miscarriage
Anywhere from 10 to 25 percent of clinically recognized pregnancies end in loss, according to the American Pregnancy Association, making...
