Study: Why lab researchers should talk with industry counterparts
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- When Shreya Dave was an MIT doctoral student working on a new kind of filter for desalination...
GW researcher receives more than $2.3 million to study cocaine’s influence on HIV
WASHINGTON (Oct. 5, 2017) -- Following studies showing that cocaine influences the replication and transcription of HIV, a researcher at...
NIH awards Wayne State $2M to analyze 20 years of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders data
Credit: Wayne State University DETROIT - Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, which result from maternal alcohol use during pregnancy, is the...
Air pollution exposure on home-to-school routes reduces the growth of working memory
A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institute supported by the "la Caixa" Banking Foundation,...
Brain study reveals how insects make beeline for home
Scientists have discovered how the wiring of bees' brains helps them plot the most direct route back to their hive....
Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding
Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding Early humans seem to have recognised the dangers...
Smart bandage could promote better, faster healing
Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Harvard Medical School and MIT have designed a smart bandage that could eventually heal...
Research identifies potential targets for treatment of leishmaniasis
Brazilian researchers at the University of São Paulo's Bioscience Institute (IB-USP) are starting to unravel the molecular mechanisms by which...
MTRAC awards spark biomedical innovation at Wayne State University
DETROIT - Three Wayne State University (WSU) research teams were recently awarded funding from Wayne State's Michigan Translational Research and...
The Forsyth Institute receives NIH award to advance research on oral microbiomes
Cambridge, MA - October 5, 2017 - A research team led by the Forsyth Institute today received a $5.4 million...
Sensory loss can be a warning sign of poor health outcomes, including death
A long-term study spanning five years and including more than 3,000 nationally-representative older US adults has found that a natural...
International team reconstructs nanoscale virus features from correlations of scattered X-rays
Credit: Jeff Donatelli, Berkeley Lab As part of an international research team, Jeff Donatelli, Peter Zwart and Kanupriya Pande of...
New Innovator Award of $2.8M to Julia Oh of JAX for skin microbiome studies
Credit: Jackson Laboratory photo by Tiffany Laufer Julia Oh, Ph.D., a Jackson Laboratory (JAX) assistant professor who explores the communities...
Sustainable financing of conservation just got a major boost
Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS The Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) announced today that the French Facility for Global Environment / Fonds...
‘Transformative’ research unrealistic to predict, scientists tell granting agencies
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Research-funding agencies that require scientists to declare at the proposal stage how their projects will be "transformative"...
New Innovator Award of $2.8 million to Julia Oh of JAX for skin microbiome studies
Credit: Jackson Laboratory photo by Tiffany Laufer Julia Oh, Ph.D., a Jackson Laboratory (JAX) assistant professor who explores the communities...
Sperm banking is underutilized by adolescent and young adult cancer patients
Credit: Seth Dixon / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital A comprehensive study of adolescent and young adult cancer patients found...
Mystery of breast cancer risk gene solved, 20 years after its discovery
New Haven, Conn.-- More than 20 years after scientists revealed that mutations in the BRCA1 gene predispose women to breast...
Cell stress response sheds light on treating inflammation-related cancer, aging
Credit: Maria Grazia Vizioli and Zhixun Dou, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA -- Stress - defined broadly...
Imaging agents developed to better monitor growth of tumours
Credit: University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) UAlberta researchers have created two new imaging agents that could help physicians visualize the...
