Postnatal identification of Zika virus peptides from saliva
Alexandria, Va., USA - For the first time, researchers are using proteomics to examine proteins and peptides in saliva in...
Johns Hopkins materials scientists probe a protein’s role in speeding Ebola’s spread
Two Johns Hopkins materials science graduate students and their professors played a key role in a multi-institution research project that...
Can ‘reading’ leaves lead to more drought-tolerant crops?
UVALDE - Looking at leaves to peer into the future might seem the stuff of superstition, but is actually the...
A tougher tooth
Fewer trips to the dentist may be in your future, and you have mussels to thank. Inspired by the mechanisms...
Researchers find an alternative mode of bacterial quorum sensing
Credit: Mukherjee et al., 2017. Whether growing in a puddle of dirty water or inside the human body, large groups...
Why tiger snakes are on a winner
Credit: Stewart Macdonald Australian tiger snakes have "hit the jackpot" because prey cannot evolve resistance to their venom. While that...
HRL receives NASA award to 3-D print ceramic rocket engine components
Credit: Image courtesy of Vector Space Systems HRL Laboratories, LLC, has received an award as part of NASA's Space Technology...
Sugars in human mother’s milk are new class of antibacterial agents
Credit: Barbara Cramer/Zack Eagles, Vanderbilt University Mother's milk, which consists of a complex and continually changing blend of proteins, fats...
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...
UH receives $3.3 million from state cancer research program
Credit: Rohith Reddy The University of Houston has received $3.3 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas....
Study of California kidney cancer shows declining incidence, end of a trend
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- A review of kidney cancer in California from 1988 through 2013 by the UC Davis Institute for...
Under the redwoods, UC Santa Cruz fights kids’ cancer using computers
Credit: City of Santa Cruz Economic Development Office SANTA CRUZ, CA - August 17 , 2017 - When you hear...
Special issue of Future Medicinal Chemistry explores immunotherapy edit article
The field of immunotherapy is moving forward at an unprecedented rate, and a range of therapeutic approaches are now used...
Top experts meet to advance holistic solutions to superbug infections spread by healthcare surfaces
DALLAS, TEXAS, AUG. 18, 2017 - A cutting edge collaboration of experts from around the nation is meeting in Dallas...
The Western Ghats of India revealed two new primitive species of earthworm
Credit: Dr S Prasanth Narayanan The Western Ghats mountains lie at the southwestern continental margin of Peninsular India and extend...
Histone 1, the guardian of genome stability
Credit: Jordi Bernués, IRB Barcelona. Scientists headed by Ferran AzorÃn, CSIC research professor and head of the Chromatin Structure and...
Organ crosstalk: Fatty liver can cause damage to other organs
Credit: © IDM Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is becoming more and more common. Approximately every third adult in the industrialized...
A map of the cell’s power station
Credit: Source: AG Meisinger Mitochondria are the cell's power stations; they transform the energy stored in nutrients so that cells...
Researchers discover new chemical process that could reduce nitrogen oxides from diesel exhaust
Credit: University of Notre Dame/Barbara Johnson Chemical engineers at the University of Notre Dame have discovered a catalytic process that...
Virus with an eggshell
Avian flu can be transmitted from birds to humans; transmission among humans, however, is limited. The reason may be an...
