Navigational view of the brain thanks to powerful X-rays
Credit: Georgia Tech / Eva Dyer If brain imaging could be compared to Google Earth, neuroscientists would already have a...
‘Wasabi receptor’ for pain discovered in flatworms
A Northwestern University research team has discovered how scalding heat and tissue injury activate an ancient "pain" receptor in simple...
Crowdsourced game aims to find solutions to aflatoxin
Mars, Inc., UC Davis and partners have launched a crowdsourcing initiative to solve the problem of aflatoxin contamination of crops....
Culturally tailored obesity intervention a success for hispanic students
Credit: University of Houston An obesity intervention for Hispanic middle school students led by researchers at the University of Houston...
Fighting fires before they spark
Credit: Matthew Hurteau With warm, dry summers comes a deadly caveat for the western United States: wildfires. Scientists say the...
Study links chocolate production to increased deforestation in poor nations
The costs of chocolate production around the world Every year, more than five million family farms in countries such as...
DuPont Pioneer and Donald Danforth Plant Science Center collaborate
Credit: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center JOHNSTON, Iowa, and ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Oct. 17, 2017 - DuPont Pioneer and the...
New research opens the door to ‘functional cure’ for HIV
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL - Oct. 17, 2017 - In findings that open the door to a...
Yeast spotlights genetic variation’s link to drug resistance
Researchers have shown that genetic diversity plays a key role in enabling drug resistance to evolve. Scientists at the Wellcome...
On-and-off fasting helps fight obesity
Up to sixteen weeks of intermittent fasting without otherwise having to count calories helps fight obesity and other metabolic disorders....
Matchmaking with consequences
Credit: Graphic: team Gallant Most human tumours have one thing in common: They harbour drastically increased amounts of the so-called...
Need for speed makes genome editing efficient, if not better
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University researchers have developed a computational model to quantify the mechanism by which CRISPR-Cas9 proteins...
Resolving traffic jams in human ALS motor neurons
A team of researchers at VIB and KU Leuven used stem cell technology to generate motor neurons from ALS patients...
Predicting how healthy your heart will be years down the road
Credit: University of Kentucky LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 17, 2017) -- Picture this: you're battling heart failure and meeting with your...