Cells divide by ‘bricklaying on moving scaffolding’
Credit: TU Delft/Scixel It is the most crucial mechanism in life - the division of cells. For 25 years, it...
Glowing mice suggest new gene therapy technique
Credit: L.A. Cicero Timothy Blake, a postdoctoral fellow in the Waymouth lab, was hard at work on a fantastical interdisciplinary...
Printable solar cells just got a little closer
Credit: Photo: Kevin Soobrian A U of T Engineering innovation could make printing solar cells as easy and inexpensive as...
Genome surgery with CRISPR-Cas9 to prevent blindness
Credit: IBS It is estimated that almost one in every ten people over 65 has some signs of age-related macular...
NYU Tandon professors build AI to help autonomous vehicles locate themselves on maps
BROOKLYN, New York -Self-driving cars could account for 21 million new vehicles sold every year by 2035. Over the next...
RIT selected to receive National Science Foundation I-Corps grant
Rochester Institute of Technology is among eight National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) sites across the country selected to each...
How whale nerves survive huge stretching during feeding
Loading video... Credit: Margo Lillie When rorqual whales eat, they open their mouths and lunge. Their tongues invert as their...
Investigating the impact of ‘legacy sediments’ on water quality
Credit: Shreeram Inamdar/University of Delaware A University of Delaware researcher has been awarded a $499,500 grant from the United States...
2017 American Samoa deep-sea expedition to reveal wonders of unexplored ecosystem
Credit: Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. There is a species of coral -- called...
Looking beyond cancer cells to understand what makes breast cancer spread
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- To understand what makes breast cancer spread, researchers are looking at where it...
Scientists create novel model that shows progression from normal blood cells to leukemia
(New York, NY - February 16, 2017) --Mount Sinai researchers have created a novel model that shows the step-by-step progression...
Real-time MRI analysis powered by supercomputers
Credit: TACC, UTHRC, Philips Healthcare One of the main tools doctors use to detect diseases and injuries in cases ranging...
Is your big data messy? We’re making an app for that
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Like a teenager's bedroom, big data is often messy. Malfunctioning computers, data entry errors and other hard-to-spot...
How cancers trick the immune system into helping rather than harming them
Credit: Dr Conor Henry and Professor Seamus Martin, Trinity College Dublin. Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered how certain...
Whales use nested Russian-doll structure to protect nerve tissue during lunge dives
Credit: University of British Columbia Fin whales use two neatly packed levels of nested folds to protect the nerves along...
University of Illinois institute leads efforts at session on energy and agricultural issues
The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is taking a leadership...
Press registration for the 2017 American Chemical Society spring national meeting
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2017 -- Journalists registering for the American Chemical Society's (ACS') 253rd National Meeting & Exposition this spring...
Iowa State engineer addresses need for scientists, engineers to engage the public
Credit: Iowa State University College of Engineering AMES, Iowa - It's no longer enough for scientists and engineers to communicate...
Researcher works with NASA to study using Martian soil to build human habitats
Credit: University of Central Florida It's hard enough to transport humans to Mars. But once they get there, where will...
Earth science on the Space Station continues to grow
Credit: NASA The number of instruments on the International Space Station dedicated to observing Earth to increase our understanding of...
