Launch of the ‘Alliance of Severo Ochoa Centres and Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence’
Credit: SEIDI The 25 centres and 16 research units accredited with the "Severo Ochoa" and "MarĂa de Maeztu" excellence distinctions...
NIFA biotechnology grants put science at center of food safety policy
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 19, 2017 - The science of agriculture grows more complex every year. Today, the U.S. Department of...
Sequencing of stevia plant genome revealed for first time by Purecircle Stevia Institute
For the first time, scientists have completed the sequencing of the stevia plant genome. Lead scientists from PureCircle Stevia Institute...
Field trips of the future?
Virtual reality has nothing on nature. Just ask the UC Santa Barbara students who one recent day trekked to a...
Gut bacteria may hold clues to Parkinson’s disease
Credit: UMass Lowell LOWELL, Mass. - The saying "Listen to your gut" is taking on new meaning in the hunt...
Research yields test to predict bitter pit disorder in Honeycrisp apples
Credit: Penn State Extension A test to determine whether bitter pit -- a disorder that blindsides apple growers by showing...
Researchers find evidence of DNA damage in veterans with Gulf War illness
Credit: Mitch Mirkin Researchers say they have found the "first direct biological evidence" of damage in veterans with Gulf War...
New tyrannosaur fossil is most complete found in southwestern US
Credit: Mark Johnston/NHMU A remarkable new fossilized skeleton of a tyrannosaur discovered in the Bureau of Land Management's Grand Staircase-Escalante...
Maternal diet may program child for disease risk, but better nutrition later can change that
URBANA, Ill. - Research has shown that a mother's diet during pregnancy, particularly one that is high-fat, may program her...
New gene editing approach for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency shows promise in UMMS study
WORCESTER -- A new study by scientists at UMass Medical School shows that using a technique called "nuclease-free" gene editing...
Infidelity can be forgiven — but at a cost
Infidelity is very common. At least 20 per cent of couples - and perhaps many more, depending on where you...
The microbial anatomy of an organ
Credit: Garg, et al. Cell Host & Microbe, Oct. 19, 2017. University of California San Diego researchers have developed the...
The birth of a new protein
Credit: Matthew Cordes, using UCSF Chimera molecular graphics package A yeast protein that evolved from scratch can fold into a...
Climate shifts shorten marine food chain off California
Credit: Lindsey E. Peavey (NOAA/CINMS) Environmental disturbances such as El Niño shake up the marine food web off Southern California,...
Newly discovered viral marker could help predict flu severity in infected patients
Credit: Vasilijevic J, et al (2017) Flu viruses contain defective genetic material that may activate the immune system in infected...
New mapping tool tracks elk migration to reduce brucellosis risk
Credit: Mark Gocke Wildlife managers and ranchers in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem soon will have a new mapping tool for...
Barrow researchers use novel imaging to predict spinal degeneration
(PHOENIX, Ariz. Oct. 19, 2017) Research by a Barrow Neurological Institute neurosurgery team on novel imaging technique assessment of patients...
How solar peaker plants could replace gas peakers
Credit: Hank Price: Dispatchable Solar Power Plant Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) can be a night-only dispatchable (D-CSP) plant; with its...
‘Y’ a protein unicorn might matter in glaucoma
Credit: BrightFocus Foundation So unheard of was what researchers discovered in a protein associated with glaucoma that for over two...
New study reveals breast cancer cells recycle their own ammonia waste as fuel
At a glance: Breast cancer cells secrete ammonia as a byproduct of cellular metabolism, which accumulates in the tumor's surrounding...
